Meet the 99 Merseyside crooks locked up in 2015 for committing shocking crimes.
There are the mugshots of criminals jailed for serious offences ranging from terrorism to murder and to sickening cases of sexual abuse.
They include Stephen Duggan, 28, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 22 years after being convicted of the murder of good Samaritan Alison Wilson, who tried to break up a street row.
Duggan killed the 36-year-old mum-of-two, from Widnes, by thrusting a broken wine bottle into her neck when she tried to stop him attacking a woman holding a baby.
A terrorist who planned to copy the IRA bombing of Manchester Arndale Centre and kill fleeing survivors was also jailed.
Abid Naseer, 29, enrolled at Liverpool John Moores University to get his visa.
He was also suspected of plotting terror attacks in New York and Denmark and a jury heard that he may have examined Liverpool One shopping centre as a potential target. He was jailed for 40 years in America.
Jealous husband Andrew Munro, 51, was handed a life sentence for murdering his wife Clare Munro, whom he stabbed 51 times in Culceth, near Warrington. He was ordered to serve a minimum of 26 years for the brutal attack.
Stephen Duggan, 28, was sentenced to life imprisonment and must serve a minimum of 22 years after being convicted of the murder of good Samaritan Alison Wilson, who tried to break up a street row.Duggan killed the 36-year-old mum-of-two, from Widnes, by thrusting a broken wine bottle into her neck when she tried to stop him attacking a woman holding a baby. A Liverpool man who strangled his 17-year-old girlfriend after being taunted about his sexual prowess to death was jailed for life – for the second time. Callum Wilcocks throttled Kelsey, 17, the mum of their three-year-old daughter, in a row over cheating at a flat in Foundry Lane, Widnes, on April 29, 2011. Wilcocks was convicted over her murder at a re-trial after initially being convicted in 2011. That conviction was quashed by appeal judges after Wilcocks claimed a severe mental disorder meant that he was not in control of his actions. But a jury at Liverpool Crown Court rejected that defence, and Wilcocks must serve a minimum of 16 years for the brutal murder. Maghull paedophile Michael Roach, 62, who was jailed for more than 17 years for sexually abusing five young girls over three decades. Members of a cross-border drugs trafficking cartel headed by “Scouse Escobar” Christopher Welsh jnr were jailed for a total of 90 years. The gang, lead by Welsh jnr, his right hand man Neil Sutemire, and Scottish gangster John Reid, were sentenced for trafficking cocaine and heroin into Scotland at Liverpool Crown Court. A teenager repeatedly stabbed a Bootle dad-of-five before his older brother punched him as he lay dying. Andrew Blood, 17, of Bedford Road, Bootle was jailed for life with a minimum of 12-and-a-half years behind bars after admitting murder. Kenneth Blood, 33, who hid the knife used by his brother to murder Steven Tucker, 51, was jailed for four years. Marie McCarthy was jailed for three-and-a-half years for stealing the virginity of a 15-year-old boy after her original suspended sentence was quashed. The 62-year-old abused the boy, now a fully grown adult, over a five-week period when she was in her 30s. Honzah Olah, 17, of Goswell Street, Wavertree, was locked up for four years after stabbing a man in the leg for no reason – then telling police he felt nothing towards his victim and didn’t care if he died. A disabled paedophile who sexually abused a young girl over more than a decade was jailed for 10 years. Philip Bradley, 55, of Scarisbrick New Road, Southport, was found guilty after a trial of historic sexual offences in Runcorn and Southport, which began in the 1990s. Jacqueline Whittle, 50, of Hampton Road, Southport, was jailed for three years following “callous frauds” of men she conned money out of online by stealing the profile picture of a beautiful American woman and getting them to fall in love with her. A terrorist planned to copy the IRA bombing of Manchester Arndale Centre and kill fleeing survivors. Abid Naseer, 29, enrolled at Liverpool John Moores University to get his visa. He was also suspected of plotting terror attacks in New York and Denmark and a jury heard that he may have examined Liverpool One shopping centre as a potential target. He was jailed for 40 years in America. Allan Sutton, 32, of Carr Bridge Road, Woodchurch, smashed his way into the wrong house and attacked a stranger. He was jailed for five years for the terrifying assault. Jealous husband Andrew Munro, 51, was handed a life sentence for murdering his wife Clare Munro, whom he stabbed 51 times. He was ordered to serve a minimum of 26 years for the brutal attack. A Walton roof fugitive who carried out a brutal gang attack on a drug dealer was locked up for nearly 18 years. John Paul McCoy, 28, was captured after a rooftop stand-off in Walton. Two men were jailed for an attack that left a Woolton drug dealer wheelchair-bound and brain-damaged. Stephen McCoy, 23, and Lee Montague, 22, were jailed for 17 years and 16 years respectively. Stephen Bowden, 61, of Parbold Avenue, St Helens, was jailed for 15 years for historic sexual offences. Kwame Terry, 31, of Old Hall Street, was jailed for 25 years for being the leader of a criminal gang who used guns to enforce their drugs business. A Wirral dad caught with a vile child abuse stash was put behind bars for 28 months. Depraved Paul Foster, 58, from Wallasey, had clips of kids as young as eight being abused. A “morally bankrupt” Wirral teen filmed sex with a schoolgirl then sent the clip to friend who put it on Facebook. Luke Patten, 19, of Eastham, Wirral, was locked up for four and a half years after admitting sexual activity with a 15-year-old, distributing an indecent image and assault causing actual bodily harm against a 19-year-old man. A depraved Wirral paedophile who abused victims as young as two was locked up for more than 13 years. Karl Bromley, 37, from Wallasey left a trail of devastation over a 16-year period in which nine victims, both male and female, were assaulted. A former nurse was jailed for stealing £65,000 from her dementia-suffering mum, leaving her unable to pay care home fees. Gillian Hillier, 54, said spiralling mortgage and business debts led her to “borrow” the money from the 88-year-old. But Liverpool Crown Court heard she spent much of the money shopping and jetting between England and a home in Malaga, Spain. Hillier, of Hansby Drive, Hunts Cross, was jailed for 20 months. A thug with a record of violence against women was jailed for 10 years today after battering his partner around the head with an iron. Alan Sherlock, 26, of Lennox Way, Edge Hill, left the woman in a pool of blood after hitting her so many times a Good Samaritan who witnessed the attack “lost count”. A woman claimed to be related to Steven Gerrard to swindle a disabled man out of £3,000 by offering him bogus shares in Facebook and Liverpool FC tickets. Laura Mason, 29, of Lobelia Avenue, Walton, used the name Louise Gerrard to suggest she was a family member of the Anfield legend as part of a “wicked fraud”. She was jailed for eight months. A man who stabbed his mum in an alcohol and cocaine-fuelled attack at their Wirral home was jailed for 14 years. David Matthews, 32, of Adaston Avenue, Eastham, had already served a jail sentence for threatening to kill his devoted parents with a saw. Sadik Ali, 24, of Windsor Street, Toxteth, was jailed for four years nine months after pleading guilty to sexual assault by penetration. He attacked a 19 year old student who agreed to share a taxi home with him. Gary Whicker, 22, of Whitland Road, Anfield, was jailed for eight months for sending a “revenge porn” video of his ex girlfriend to her 10 year old brother. A disgraced music teacher and former Green Party press officer who sexually assaulted a schoolgirl was jailed for 14 months. Vincent Spencer, 51, from Birkenhead, persuaded his victim to get into bed before kissing her and touching her body over her underwear. Terri Bowker-Hughes was jailed for three years for running a brothel at her city centre flat. A £70,000 benefits cheat who said he couldn’t walk was secretly filmed pulling two suitcases through an airport before jetting away on a luxury holiday to Australia with his wife. Fraudster Kevin McEntee, 64, from Birkenhead, was jailed for two years. Jamie Roberts, 26, of Walmer Road, Waterloo, was jailed for 12 and a half years for robbery in Bootle in which a man was stabbed. A mum-of-three was jailed for three years after she threw a metal drain cover at her friend’s head causing a 5cm deep wound. Kayleigh North, 28, of Marsh Lane, Bootle. attacked the woman during a drunken row. JS71535625 Jack Quinton, 21, of no fixed address, was jailed for seven years and one month for an armed raid involving a gang wearing skull masks. A pair of burglars were jailed after stealing treasured jewellery from pensioners’ homes across Wirral.Drug addict Claire Molden, 19, of Bridge Street, Birkenhead and career criminal Jason Carson, 30, of Lansdowne Road, Birkenhead, ransacked the houses during a six-day spree. Two men who killed PC Neil Doyle during a Christmas night out in Liverpool were jailed. Andrew Taylor, from Huyton and Timmy Donovan, from Childwall, were locked up for seven years and six months and six years and 10 months respectively after both being convicted of manslaughter. Melvin Coy, 32, of Dooley Drive, Old Roan, was jailed after admitting handling stolen goods. Coy was previously jailed for helping the killer of Rhys Jones evade justice. Philip Wharton, 42, of Dale Street, Runcorn was sent down for six years after a householder disarmed him of his axe and pinned him down until police arrived. A computer geek from Liverpool was jailed for eight years at the Old Bailey for trying to buy deadly ricin poison from the Dark Web after being inspired by the hit US television series Breaking Bad. Software programmer Mohammed Ali, 31, of Prescot Road, Old Swan was found guilty of attempting to possess a chemical weapon. Drug addict Philip Taylor, 39, of Maybank Road, Birkenhead, threatened to stab a family with a screwdriver. Paul Griffiths, 43, plied a vulnerable schoolgirl with heroin before having sex with her at his house in Wilburn Street, Walton. He was jailed for seven years. Sex offender David Bennett, 31, who was armed with a knife, sexually assaulted a woman while she sat outside Skelmersdale police station waiting for her teenage son, who was being questioned. Bennett, of Willow Hey, Skelmersdale, was jailed for six years at Liverpool crown court. Martin Daiken, 28, of Boaler Street, Kensington, was given a life sentence for repeatedly stabbing and slashing 47-year-old Roy Heyes’ throat with a broken bottle and clubbing him over the head with a lamp stand. A “greedy” fraudster who used his dead brother and an old schoolmate’s identities to steal £200,000 in benefits was jailed for 28 months. Carl Jones, 79, of Grange Terrace, Wavertree, claimed housing and council tax benefits using the name of his younger brother Roy – who died in 1967. A married man who posted “revenge porn” of his ex-partner online in a “monstrous and devastating breach of trust” was also jailed for three months. David Jones, 53, of Mockbeggar Drive, Wallasey, was locked up at Liverpool magistrates’ court in what was the first conviction in Merseyside under new laws to target the sick practice. Craig Lister, 34, of Hale Road, Walton, nicknamed Bin Laden because of his violent crimes, was jailed for 22 years for a string of robberies. Two “cold-blooded assassins” from Liverpool were given life sentences for using combat knives and a hammer to try murder a member of a rival drug group. Jason “J” McLoughlin, 44, of Utting Avenue East, Norris Green, and Louis Paul Gantley, 29, of Cawthorne Avenue, Kirkby, were told they must serve at least 10 years and four months. Anthony Bath, 22, of Montague Road, Old Swan and Nathan McGrail, 26, of Whinchat Avenue, Newton-le-Willows, were jailed for more than five years in total after conspiring to move profits of cross-border drug dealing. Joseph Tonner, 54, of Aston Green, Runcorn, was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting two children. Abusive boyfriend Michael Quinn, 25, of Tinsley Avenue, Southport, was jailed for five years. He demanded his partner call him Dominus after the slavemaster in Spartacus. William Cowley, 17, stabbed a fellow teenager in an alleyway off Brows Lane, Formby, after a shooting at his house. Cowley, of Gardner Road, Formby, was locked up for five years with an extended three years on licence. Kenneth Simmons, 62, from Tuebrook, was jailed for 14 years after being found guilty of 16 charges of indecent assault and gross indecency dating back to the 70s. Courtney Randles, the 26-year-old girlfriend of murdering drug dealer Chris Kenny, was jailed for three years and four months after admitting money laundering. Randles, of Nickleby Close, Toxteth, enjoyed first class travel, expensive holidays and lavish shopping trips to New York using her boyfriend’s laundered money. Three thugs were locked up for life for the murder of St Helens teenager Jordan Campbell, 17. Ruben Hoather, 22, of Tickle Avenue and Daniel Wiltshire, 25, of Wargrave Road, Newton-le-Willows were jailed for a minimum of 19 years and 21 years. Anthony Wood, 32, of Elephant Lane, Thatto Heath, was jailed for 21 years. “Bi-curious” thug Frank Shannon, who beat a 73-year-old man from Formby unconscious, was jailed for eight years. Shannon, 30, of Ascot Drive, Kirkby attacked the man after meeting him on a dating website. Andrew Skelton, of Water Street, in the city centre, was jailed for eight years after being found guilty of leaking sensitive, personal data relating to almost 100,000 Morrisons supermarket staff. Simon Helstrip, 43, of Euston Grove, Prenton, was jailed for 14 months for sexually assaulting a woman. Peter Watson, 74, of Upland Road, Upton, jailed for 15 years for rape and sexual abuse of a young girl. St Helens mum Amanda O’Shaughnessy was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her partner David Butterworth by stabbing him in the back with a kitchen knife. She will serve a minimum of 14 years. David Vernon Parle, formerly of Trafalgar Road, Wallasey, was jailed for 11 months after sexually assaulting two nurses after taking magic mushrooms. A Toxteth man who groomed a 13-year-old girl on the internet before sexually assaulting her was jailed for more than four years. Alan Pendleton, 52, of Merlin Street, pleaded guilty to four counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child and one charge of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. Frail widow Barbara King was jailed for 12 years as her historical sex crimes caught up with her. King, 71, of Muspratt Road, Litherland, and her husband Tommy, abused young two girls from troubled backgrounds under the pretence of offering them a safe haven. Dingle mum Farieissia Martin, 22, was jailed for a minimum of 13 years for the murder of her childhood sweetheart. Dad-of-two Kyle Farrell was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife after a heated row at Martin’s home in Charlecote Street, Dingle. Christopher Kenny and Shaun Walmsley – both 26 John Hore, 54, and Kirk Mello, 31, were jailed for more than 100 years in total over the murder of Anthony Duffy, 33, in Aintree last year. He was “repeatedly and brutally stabbed” 28 times by rivals who learned that he had plotted to burgle their cannabis farm. Augustine Adu, 31, of Padbury Street, Toxteth, was jailed for nine years and 10 months after stabbing a man so hard with a kitchen knife that the blade snapped in his stomach. Michael Rollason, 39, from Great Sankey, near Warrington, was jailed for seven years for causing the death of cyclist Terry Brown through dangerous driving. He later claimed that he thought he had hit a wheelie-bin. Grandmother Lorraine Williams, 58, of Forthlin Road, Allerton, was jailed for two years for drink-driving after knocking down young dad David Lovelady on the way home from bingo. She downed double brandies to celebrate her birthday before getting behind the wheel. Benefits cheat David Williams, 34, formerly of Gresford Avenue, West Kirby, was jailed for two and a half years for falsely accusing an ex-lover of sexual assault and blackmail. Philip David Knowles from St Helens was jailed for 14 years for rape and branded “dangerous” by a judge. Terence Grant-Hanlon, 39, of Bloomfield Green, Sefton Park, was jailed for 11 years for historic sexual abuse. Pervert doctor Ram Manohar was jailed for six years for sexually assaulting two nurses at Wirral’s Arrowe Park Hospital. Manohar, of Dale End Road, Barnston, denied any wrongdoing but was found guilty of three out of four counts of sexual assault. Michael Haigh, 25, of Buttermere Crescent in Rainford, was jailed for life for the murder of dad-of-two Ryan Kennedy in a hit and run attack. John Cullinan, 35, of Hornby Boulevard, Seaforth, was jailed for four years after throwing two pint glasses in a man’s face at The Jollys pub in Bootle. Derek Medlicott, 42, of MacFarren Street, Old Swan, was jailed for life with a minimum of seven years after robbing a bank with his partner and her son and a “one-man crimewave” of other robberies. James Felix Anthony, 64, of Vyner Close, Prenton, was locked up for running a prostitution ring in Wirral. Ex-Merseyside police officer Gary McBride, 45, of Greenfield Road, Old Swan, groomed a vulnerable 12-year-old girl on Facebook then made her pose naked for photographs. He was jailed for seven years. David Hughes, 74, of Bowring Park Road, Broadgreen, was jailed for nine years for a campaign of sexual abuse against five children. Thug Martin Grant, 26, of Davidson Road, Old Swan, was jailed for 10 years after he slashed a man with a Stanley knife, leaving him scarred for life and needing 90 stitches. Predatory criminal Francis Dickinson, 49, who targeted more than 150 OAPs during his life of crime, was jailed for life after committing an offence a week after being released from prison. Racist thug John Kavanagh, 31, of Dial Street, Kensington, was jailed for 11 years after he slashed a woman’s face in a Liverpool street. Grandad Maurice McCullough, 75, from Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, was jailed for 10 years after a court heard he “stole the childhood” of a St Helens teenager he groomed and abused. John Dyer, 25, of St Albans Court, Vauxhall, was sentenced to life for the murder of Stephen Bennett in a cocaine-fuelled attack. Scout leader Gavin Owen, 38, of Heathfield Close, Formby, was jailed for four and a half years after abusing two teenage boys and being found with a grim haul of child porn. Matthew Connah, 37, of Barons Hey, Stockbridge Village, was jailed for eight years for the killing of popular West Derby grandad-of-ten and pub landlord Richie Williams. Sexual predator Barry Potts, 65, of Bridgemere Close, Fairfield, was locked up for seven years over a string of crimes dating back to the 1970s. Robert Nye, 56, of Vincent Road, Litherland, was jailed for 19 years for historical sex offences against children. One-eyed Ukranian knifeman Igor Rudamenko, from Tuebrook, was jailed for two years and eight months for assaults, burglary and homophobic threats to kill a female neighbour. Jamie Hughes, 33, of no fixed abode, was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years for the murder of Paul Tully in St Helens. Terence Vasey, 55, of Church Street, Southport, was jailed for three years for sexual assault on a 64-year-old woman. His life of crime spanned 40 years and included the killing of a schoolgirl by running her over while drunk at the wheel. Sean Philip Cottrell, 22, of Park Road South, Prenton, was locked up for 11 years for causing his baby son brain injuries by violently shaking him. Paedophile Stephen Woods, 50, of Kelby Close, Toxteth, sexually abused two girls and was jailed for 13 years.
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