These are the faces of 11 criminals locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this week.
Judges dealt with two separate cases involving men with underworld connections who each stashed semi-automatic guns with silencers.
A court heard how a uninsured and unlicenced driver caused a crash that killed a friend and left the victim's partner seriously injured.
Young drug dealers spreading misery and the teenage member of a selfie-taking robbery gang also ended up behind bars.
And another judge had to sentence a rapist who carried a dark secret for more than three decades, after blighting the lives of three children.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past week.
Barry Ellis
Barry Ellis deliberately coughed and blew smoke in the face of a nurse after lowering his mask on a coronavirus ward.
The 47-year-old claimed he was showing symptoms of the disease and was admitted to Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.
A court heard the drunken crook didn't in fact have coronavirus, or think that he did, but medical staff didn't know that.
And his vile act left the nurse fearing she had caught Covid-19 and may have passed it on to her family or other patients.
Ellis - who has 42 convictions for 65 offences - was "aggressive, abusive and threatening", at around 3pm, on April 13.
The victim endured sleepless nights, became more anxious and lost confidence when dealing with confrontational patients.
Ellis, of Rock Lane East, Rock Ferry, admitted assaulting an emergency worker and breaching a suspended sentence.
Last July he was given 18 weeks in jail, suspended for 12 months, for wasting police time.
That was after he falsely claimed there was a gunman at a pub in Upton.
Ellis was jailed for nine months in total.
Joel Dowling
Joel Dowling made threatening phone calls from inside a prison cell - landing him even more time in jail.
The 23-year-old, from Skelmersdale, was slapped with the injunction last year along with his associate Stephen Grimes, meaning they were not allowed to communicate with each other, or a list of eight other people.
The pair were sentenced together after they went on a rampage at The Elmridge Arms pub in September and threatened a man with a knife.
In April, Dowling was given a 42-day suspended prison sentence, after being caught speaking to Grimes and breaching the injunction.
But he was returned to jail anyway for breaching his prison licence, after being released from custody early.
Despite only being back in prison for less than a month, Dowling, of no fixed address, then made the threatening calls.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to another 42 days in prison, consecutive to the 42-day suspended term.
Jason Downey
Jason Downey kept a "dark secret" that he once raped a little boy and girl for more than three decades.
The 48-year-old, of Trent Close, Rainhill, molested three children in Huyton in the 1980s, when he was aged 15.
He raped a boy who was three or four, raped a girl under the age of 10, and groped another girl under 10.
Downey - now a married man with three children of his own - blamed his sick crimes on his absent parents.
Judge David Aubrey, QC, said: "For many years, indeed decades, you held onto a dark secret.
"You're not the only one who has kept these offences stored in the mind - so have your victims, who were such a tender age when you sexually abused them."
The two now adult rape victims told the court how the abuse had ruined their lives and left them traumatised.
Downey confessed, said he was sorry and claimed he didn't intend to hurt his victims, but "couldn't help himself".
He admitted nine counts of gross indecency with a child, two of which would be classified as rapes today.
Judge Aubrey said: "You took away from your three victims their childhood, happiness and innocence."
The judge added: "You have scarred them all greatly and, in truth, given to them a life sentence."
However, under sentencing guidelines he had to take into account the fact Downey was 15 at the time.
Judge Aubrey jailed him for four and a half years and told him to sign on the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely.
Jack Quinton
Jack Quinton hid two loaded guns above a chimney but was caught with his hands covered in black dust.
A member of the notorious Fernhill gang, he desperately stashed an Italian revolver and a semi-automatic Glock with a silencer, plus bullets capable of being fired with either weapon.
But armed police burst into a garage he had taken over in Bedford Road, Bootle, shortly after 5pm, on March 28 last year.
Quinton, 26, who was on licence from prison for a gangland kidnapping and terrifying burglary, had only been freed six months earlier.
His DNA was on the weapons, which prosecutors said were "ready to go", in a bag hidden on top of a very dusty chimney breast.
The mother of his seven-month-old daughter, Darhyl Hannah-Smith, 29, who ferried the crook around in her car, drove to the scene when he was arrested.
She later sent him phone numbers to use on a new SIM card, which he acquired within hours of going into custody.
He was also seen driving an Audi RS4 on March 22, stolen in Nottinghamshire on March 8, from which his DNA was later recovered.
Quinton, of Garden View, Caspian Place, Bootle, admitted possessing the Glock with intent to endanger life, possessing the silencer, possessing the revolver, two counts of possessing ammunition and handling stolen goods.
He was jailed for 13 and a half years, with an extended two and a half years on licence.
Smith, of Crompton Street, Kirkdale, who admitted participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group, was handed 16 months in jail, suspended for two years, plus 120 hours of unpaid work and a 10-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
Robert Lingham
Teenage drug dealer Robert Lingham hid £4,000 of heroin and crack cocaine under a mattress in a hotel bedroom.
The then 18-year-old was caught with the stash at a Travelodge in Fiddlers Ferry Road, Widnes in the early hours of August 3 last year.
Police also discovered £575 in cash, a small amount of cannabis and two mobile phones, which later revealed evidence of drug dealing.
Lingham, from the Runcorn area, remained tight-lipped during a police interview and was released on bail, pending further investigations.
Just over a month later, officers raided another hotel room Lingham was staying in, this time at the Days Inn, in Liverpool city centre.
They seized 54g of crack cocaine - said by police to be worth "thousands of pounds" - and a small bag of cannabis on September 11.
On October 11, he admitted possessing a Class A drug with intent to supply and possessing a Class B drug, in relation to the September 11 find.
But the judge wasn't made aware of the outstanding investigation relating to the August 3 haul and jailed him for two years and seven months.
Lingham, now 19, admitted two more counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply, and possessing cannabis, earlier this month.
Judge Rachel Smith said if she had sentenced Lingham for all of the offences in October, she would have jailed him for three years.
As a result, she sentenced him to a further five months behind bars.
Alex Lloyd
Dangerous driver Alex Lloyd killed his passenger Paul Hayes - a young support worker and beloved Liverpool fan.
The uninsured and unlicensed driver left the 25-year-old dead and his victim's girlfriend Lauren Hay, 19, critically injured.
The 26-year-old was at the wheel of a Ford Fiesta which collided head-on with a Ford S-Max private hire taxi in West Derby.
The impact left the car flipped on its side, the taxi rolling in the road, and Lauren trapped in the Fiesta, at 1am, on June 29 last year.
Witnesses said Mr Hayes was found lying underneath the Fiesta, on Princess Drive, after they described hearing a loud "bang".
Mr Hayes, who cared for people with mental health difficulties, and the driver knew each other, but the extent of their relationship is unclear.
Two men travelling in the S-Max private, aged 34 and 66, were treated at the scene for slight injuries, while Lauren was taken to hospital.
Lloyd, who refused to be breathalysed, was seen shouting out in shock, covered in blood, before he was arrested by police.
He admitted causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, causing death by driving a vehicle while uninsured and unlicensed, and failing to provide a specimen for analysis.
Lloyd, of Lawson Walk, West Derby, was jailed for seven years and four months.
He was banned from driving for eight years and seven months.
Lennon Lowry
Shameful photos showed Lennon Lowry and his robbery gang posing for selfies in an OAP's stolen motability car.
Lowry and two friends took the Nissan X-Trail in a cruel burglary from a Wirral woman who cares for her elderly mum, aged 89.
Within hours of the early morning raid in Wallasey, it had been filled with stolen petrol and fitted with stolen licence plates.
Lowry, then 17, Callum Carr, 22, and Jack O'Connor, 18, smoked and made hand gestures as they sat in the car and on its roof.
A disgraceful video later showed Lowry - wearing latex gloves - at the wheel, as Carr asked: "Who are we going to rob today boys?"
The laughing gang were joined by Carr's brother, Lewis Carr, 18, when they robbed a 16-year-old boy of an iPhone in Upton that same day.
Lowry then shot through red lights to escape police, but officers used a stop stick to puncture two of the Nissan's tyres and rammed it off the road.
The Carr brothers and O'Connor were locked up in March, but Lowry, 18, of Burns Avenue, Wallasey, wasn't sentenced until this week.
He already had 26 convictions for 62 offences, dating back to when he was just 12, before the burglary and robbery on August 21 last year.
Lowry, who admitted burglary, theft, making off without payment, robbery and dangerous driving, was locked up for two years and a half years.
He was banned from driving for 33 months.
Tricamo Farid
Tricamo Farid illegally claimed more than £120,000 in benefits after stealing the identity of a family friend.
The dad-of-two stole the huge sum by conning his way into falsely claiming benefits including Job Seekers Allowance, Employment Support and Personal Independence Payments, as well as council tax and housing benefits.
The 40-year-old, of St Thomas More Drive in Southport, carried out the deception for 17 years, before being arrested in May 2018 and had largely used the money to feed an alcohol addiction.
Born in Mozambique, he left the country to earn money for his ill mother and, while he was in Lisbon in 1999, he stole identification documents belonging to Portuguese national Dercio Quinta.
He then used the stolen ID to gain entry to Dublin, before moving to England in 2001 and obtaining a National Insurance number using Mr Quinta's ID.
Judge Thomas Teague, QC, said: "You stole the ID of a Portuguese man and got a National Insurance number using that fake ID.
"You even had the cheek to complete and sign documentation for an appeal for a decision you didn't like in 2016."
Farid, who admitted 20 charges relating to fraud, acquiring criminal property and dishonestly claiming a wrongful credit, was jailed for two years.
Anthony Corish
Anthony Corish was caught with a gun, silencer and bullets plus £13,000 of high purity cocaine.
The dad-of-three stashed the semi-automatic pistol, sound moderator and ammunition in a bathroom airing cupboard.
The 39-year-old also had 131g of 81% pure cocaine - believed to have been cut from a kilo block - secreted under the stairs.
Prosecutors said the haul was found at a house where he was living with his wife and children in Chatham Close, Seaforth.
That was while builders carried out £80,000 of renovations on their family home in Church Road, Seaforth, after Corish paid a £15,000 deposit in cash.
No one was present when police raided the house, at 9.55am, on February 5 this year, and found the American .380 ACP calibre self-loading pistol, with a "silencer or sound moderator", a magazine containing 11 bullets, and a further 26 rounds stored separately, all capable for use in that firearm.
Officers also found a set of scales, plastic bags and £225 in cash under a sink, then in a master bedroom £1,780 in cash, latex gloves and a face mask.
In a cupboard under the stairs an officer retrieved three blocks of cocaine, valued at up to £13,160, a white bag bearing traces of the drug, and sandwich bags.
Corish admitted two counts of possessing a firearm, possessing ammunition, and possessing cocaine with intent to supply.
He was jailed for 10 years.
Ben Humphries and Alan Grimes
Benjamin Humphries was caught trying to climb out the window of a drug den where he sold crack cocaine and heroin.
The 19-year-old, from Speke, moved into the Brentfield, Widnes home of alcoholic and cannabis smoker Alan Grimes, 52.
Humphries tried to escape just moments before police raided the first floor flat, at around 8am, on November 27 last year.
But when he spotted officers he decided to hurl a package out the window, scattering Class A drugs in the car park below.
The package and his manbag contained 92 wraps of 55% pure heroin, weighing 11.46g in total, with an estimated street value of £1,146, plus 107 wraps of 75% pure crack, weighing 8.26g in total, valued at £826.
Police also seized 23g of cannabis, which prosecutors accepted Humphries had for his personal use, and £245 in cash.
Humphries, of Alderwood Avenue, Speke, who has no previous convictions, admitted two counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply and possessing cannabis.
Grimes, who pleaded guilty to two counts of permitting his premises to be used for the supply of Class A drugs, has a long criminal record dating back to 1992.
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Humphries was locked up for two years and four months, while Grimes was jailed for eight months.
Grimes was also handed a three-year Criminal Behaviour Order, which bans him from activity including having three or more visitors to his home at any one time.
