These are the latest Liverpool ECHO headlines this morning.
Remorseless 'predator' saw teenager heading home from night out as 'easy target'
A rapist saw a teenager heading home from a night out in Liverpool city centre as an "easy target".
Hameed Naderi posed as a taxi driver in order to lure the woman into his car before abducting and raping her while she was "very vulnerable" in the early hours. The takeaway delivery man was yesterday described as a "predator" who had shown no remorse for his "wicked" crimes.
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Liverpool Crown Court heard on Monday that the 19-year-old victim took a taxi into town shortly after 12.15am. Michael Scholes, prosecuting, described how she recalled being in a bar on Concert Square, but her next memory was being in the stranger's bedroom with him on top of her and having sex with her.
Mum feared tiny baby would die before Christmas when she didn't grow
A new mum feared her tiny baby wouldn't live to see her first Christmas as doctors fought to keep her alive.
Sophie Louise James was just 25 weeks pregnant when her waters broke and she was rushed to A&E. Doctors attempted to keep the baby inside Sophie's womb for as long as possible but just four days later, she went into labour and gave birth to a tiny Marley naturally.
READ MORE: Mum feared tiny baby would die before Christmas when she didn't grow
The newborn arrived on April 2 at 5.57am and weighed so little that doctors feared she wouldn't make it. Marley was taken to NICU at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, where medics battled against a complex list of health issues including renal failure and a bleed on the brain.
She also had dangerous calcium levels which meant she was unable to drink breast milk. But after 102 days in hospital battling back to health, Marley, now seven-months-old, and weighing 9lb 9oz, was allowed home and is now thriving.
The family have planned to go ''all out'' for Christmas this year to celebrate their miracle baby.
Man with pair of tights on his head tried to rob pie shop while brandishing knife
A man with a pair of tights on his head tried to rob a pie shop.
Connor Lunt brandished a knife at bakery staff and demanded that they hand over cash from the till. But he left empty-handed and was rapped after police discovered his fingerprints on the counter.
READ MORE: Man with pair of tights on his head tried to rob pie shop while brandishing knife
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday afternoon, Monday, that the 26-year-old entered the Waterfields branch on Greenes Road in Prescot at around 11.30am on May 5 this year holding the weapon and "gesturing it" towards workers. Lunt told them "give me the f***ing money and open the f***ing till" and began stabbing through a gap between glass panels.
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