Married pervert's sick messages, wanted drug dealer…

Married pervert's sick messages, wanted drug dealer and new 'super restaurant'

These are the latest ECHO headlines this morning.

Married man told 'teen' his private parts were 'tiny' in sick messages

A pervert befriended a '14-year-old girl' on Facebook and told her "look at my little willy".

Married man Terry Yates sent naked pictures and videos to the supposed teenager in a string of lewd online chats. But, unbeknown to him, the Amazon warehouse worker was actually being ensnared in a paedophile hunter sting.

Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Monday, that the 39-year-old sent a friend request to the profile operated by paedophile hunters on May 5 this year. Yates subsequently began messaging the so-called teen on June 3.

Olivia Beesley, prosecuting, described how he was informed from the outset that she was aged 14 but still told her she was "gorgeous" and said she was "his beautiful princess". The paedophile asked the girl to send him a video of her "giggling" and "repeatedly made references to his tiny willy".

Yates, from Warrington, asked her to "look at my tiny willy" and sent her a video of him "wiggling" his penis around, as well as a fully nude photograph. He also requested that she send him pictures of herself in her school uniform and record herself telling him he "had a tiny willy". Read the full story here.

Wanted drug dealer finally jailed after ten years on the run

A drug dealer caught when his house was sprayed with bullets later skipped bail and spent a decade on the run.

Mark Deary admitted possession of cocaine with intent to supply in December 2011, but disappeared while awaiting his sentencing date, set for January 12, 2012. An arrest warrant was issued but Deary, of Allerford Road, West Derby, was eventually sentenced to seven years in prison in his absence.

Deary, now 43, was named alongside five others in an appeal for information on outstanding fugitives, dubbed Operation Hunted, issued by Merseyside Police earlier this month. Since then he was traced and appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday.

There was confusion over details of the case in court yesterday due to the age of proceedings but the paper court file was tracked down, enabling Judge Brian Cummings, KC, to confirm key details.

He pointed out that there was reference in the file to Deary making an unsuccessful passport application after he pleaded guilty, and before he absconded around the time he was due to attend a probation appointment.

Judge Cummings said: "It raises a relevant matter of intent. If there is a Bail Act offence it is clearly a very serious one given the extended time he has been at large and more serious if that sort of detail surrounded it." Read the full story here.

Inside huge new 'super restaurant' transforming historic pumphouse in Liverpool

A huge new super-restaurant is set to open on Liverpool’s waterfront.

A £120m restaurant has been granted planning permission from Liverpool City Council. The 200-seat venue will transform the historic Grade II* listed Victorian Hydraulic Pumphouse Station on Stanley Dock.

The interior of the Pumphouse has four distinct spaces - an entrance hall, boiler room, accumulator tower and engine room. The new design will see the restoration of the entrance hall, with a large existing feature doorway, which will lead into the main dining space.

The main dining space will consist of the boiler room, with a new contemporary glazed extension creating a glass walled space with an 18.5ft-high glass ceiling overlooking the dock. Glazed doors will also open onto an outside waterfront dining terrace.

An inner atrium with a 23ft high ceiling, which will house dining and a cocktail bar, will connect the glazed extension and original brick boiler house. There will also be a galleried mezzanine floor installed in the boiler house to create a dining area with feature brick walls on the lower level.