These are the faces of Merseyside criminals jailed for life for committing horrific and sickening crimes.
Life sentences are most commonly reserved for murderers and killers - but in these cases, offenders' crimes were so serious they were sent down for life.
This means they will remain on licence permanently and can only apply for parole after serving a minimum term of their life sentence, as set out by a judge.
But they will only ever set foot in the community again if a parole board decides they no longer pose a risk to the public, and any further crime will mean a prison recall.
Offenders handed life sentences for crimes other than murder and manslaughter on Merseyside include the UK's most prolific serial rapist and a vile paedophile who held a young boy at gunpoint.
Nanu Miah
'Fast and Furious' style criminal Nanu Miah whose gang netted £500,000 by blowing up cash machines was jailed for life.
The Liverpool-based group caused gas explosions and dragged out cash points using heavy vehicles at banks and shops across the UK.
The ruthless criminals then fled in stolen-to-order sports cars, reaching speeds of 150mph as they left pursuing police cars behind them.
The group led officers on chases along motorway hard shoulders and country lanes, before driving to safety up ramps into the back of a lorry.
Nanu Miah, who led the gang’s operations in the West Midlands, was jailed for life in April 2017, with a minimum of nine years behind bars.
Miah, then 28, of Sparkbrook, Birmingham, will only be released if a parole board decides he is no longer a threat to society.
His licence period will then last for the rest of his life, meaning if he commits another crime, he can be sent back to prison at any time.
Judge Alan Conrad, QC, said Miah was receiving the punishment because of his past crimes and the fact he was on licence at the time.
He was previously locked up for 10 years for robbery and possession of a loaded firearm.
Wayne Hill
Wayne Hill was jailed for life in November 2019 for attempting to murder a 78-year-old woman in the street while armed with knives.
The 52-year-old, from Ellesmere Port, admitted trying to kill the woman on August 20 in 2019, before Chester Crown Court on October 2 last year.
He appeared back in court in November 2019, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 10 years.
Hill had been been drinking heavily on the day of the vicious assault which began at a house in Wetherby Way, in Ellesmere Port, at around 10.30pm.
The court heard how Hill was armed with knives during the attack which later moved outside into the street - where he assaulted the pensioner as she attempted to escape from him.
Hill made threats to kill the victim as neighbours pulled him off her and restrained him.
He was arrested by police at the scene and officers seized the knives.
The victim suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital in an ambulance.
She was later discharged but required ongoing medical treatment.
Stanley McBrien and Edward Crompton
Stanley McBrien and Edward Crompton tried to burn a man alive for allegedly chatting up McBrien's girlfriend.
The cousins doused Joseph Holding in petrol and set him on fire after McBrien said: "This is for trying to shag my bird."
The terrified 25-year-old victim was turned into a human torch and raced upstairs to try and put the flames out in a shower.
Mr Holding realised his mum's flat in Waterloo was ablaze and jumped out of a first floor window on November 9, 2018.
He was left covered in blood, with burns over 50% of his body, in an attack centred around McBrien's partner, Taylor Brown.
Fearing he would die, he asked paramedics for a pen and paper to write down the names of McBrien, Crompton and Miss Brown.
Doctors didn't think Mr Holding would survive and he was brought out of an induced coma so detectives could speak to him.
McBrien and Crompton also slashed him with a machete because he allegedly "made a pass" at Miss Brown, which he denied.
Crompton, 26, of Bowland Drive, Litherland, was arrested last December after spending three weeks in hiding, before standing trial.
He was convicted of attempted murder in June 2019 and jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years and five days.
Police caught McBrien, 24, of Wembley Road, Crosby, at a graveyard in Cheshire in May 2019.
He admitted attempted murder, ahead of a trial in November 2019, and was jailed for life with a minimum of 12 years and 273 days.
Reynhard Sinaga
Reynhard Sinaga - the UK's most prolific serial rapist - was jailed for life in January after drugging at least 48 men and filming himself sexually assaulting them while they were unconscious.
Police have linked Reynhard Sinaga to more than 190 potential victims in total - 70 of whom they have not yet been able to identify.
The 36-year-old went out in the early hours of the morning, hunting for lone, drunk young men around nightclubs near his flat in Manchester.
The Indonesian student posed as a Good Samaritan who offered them a floor to sleep on or promised them more drink, Manchester Crown Court heard.
His victims - who were mainly heterosexual - had little or no memory of the hours that followed as Sinaga filmed the assaults on his mobile phone, and they later left the apartment unaware they had been violated.
The rapist was caught when one of the men regained consciousness and fought him off before he went to the police and crucially handed in Sinaga's phone.
Sinaga was jailed for life and must serve a minimum of 30 years in custody before he can be considered for parole.
He claimed the men consented to being recorded playing a sex game in which they pretended to be dead to fulfil his fantasies - a defence labelled "preposterous" by prosecutor Iain Simkin as jurors saw footage of some victims snoring.
He was found guilty of a total of 159 offences committed between January 2015 and May 2017 - 136 counts of rape, 13 counts of sexual assault, eight counts of attempted rape and two counts of assault by penetration.
Shaun Hopkins
Serial rapist Shaun Hopkins was given a second life sentence after another victim recognised his face in the ECHO.
In April 2014, Hopkins, then 27, was jailed for life with a minimum term of nine years for two horrific sex attacks in 2005 and 2013.
The first attack in 2005, involved Hopkins punching an 18-year-old girl after pinning her down and raping her.
She was left pregnant with his child.
Hopkins was not prosecuted at the time because the Crown Prosecution Service said there was no realistic prospect of conviction.
The second attack in 2013, happened on Smithdown Road, where his victim was walking after having a few drinks.
Hopkins offered her a lift home, before beating her unconscious and raping her.
In March 2015, Hopkins was given a second life sentence after another victim recognised his face in the ECHO and came forward.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that her partner saw she was “shaking and extremely distressed” after reading the article and when he asked if Hopkins had done the same to her, she replied that he had.
Hopkins, who was living in Third Avenue, Fazakerley, at the time, admitted the rape which the court heard happened in July 2005, three months after Hopkins first struck.
The rapist was working at the Walnut Tree pub in Bootle when the victim, then 18, came in with a friend.
They all chatted and Hopkins offered to walk them both home.
But after dropping off her friend, Hopkins raped his victim on concrete steps.
Judge Robert Trevor-Jones handed Hopkins a concurrent life sentence with a minimum of 10 years.
However, the sentence was later reduced to a minimum term of nine and a half years, after lawyers acting for Hopkins successfully argued that the judge had made a miscalculation.
George Gibbs
Vile paedophile George Gibbs who held a young boy at gunpoint and forced him to perform sex acts was jailed for life.
Gibbs, 65, claimed to have connections with Liverpool’s music and football scenes and projected an outward appearance of being friendly and free with his cash.
But that was a front for his real personality - that of a dangerous, manipulative sex offender.
In July 2014, Liverpool Crown Court heard how Gibbs raped two boys, one of them repeatedly, and seduced others after offering them a cocktail of drugs and booze.
One boy who refused his advances was forced to strip at gun point before Gibbs forced him to perform vile sex acts.
Gibbs then moved to Thailand where he had easy access to young boys.
The 65-year-old, who was convicted of gross indecency in the 1970s, was found guilty of 26 offences including indecent assault and buggery, which would have been charged as rape today, at a trial which lasted five weeks.
Throughout the hearing in 2014, Gibbs, of Kremlin Drive, Tuebrook at the time, insisted he had been set up by a conspiracy between the police and his victims and forced them each to relive their childhood nightmares as they gave evidence.
But in a probation service interview he finally admitted he had committed virtually all the crimes he had been accused of.
Many of his victims, who came from Bournemouth where Gibbs was living at the time, said they had not been able to bring themselves to tell even their wives or parents about what happened to them in the 1980s and 1990s.
Gibbs was jailed for life with a minimum term of eleven and a half years, minus the time spent on remand before he could be considered for parole.
