These are the police mugshots of drug dealers, burglars, rapists and other criminals locked up in Liverpool this week.
Cases dealt with at the city’s crown court and magistrates court this week include a drug dealer who failed to turn up for his trial and a Wirral man who burgled homes to steal expensive cars.
Also jailed this week were two women who assaulted other women with stiletto heels, in separate incidents in Merseyside.
One of this week’s most high-profile sentencings was the case of Mebrehtom Abrha, who raped a young woman as she walked to her boyfriend’s house in Toxteth.
Abrha was caught following an appeal on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme.
Liam Ditchfield
Liam Ditchfield, now of Church Road in Sheerness, Kent, was jailed for seven years
Toxteth drug dealer Liam Ditchfield was handed a further 28 days in prison this week on top of the seven year sentence he was given in November.
The 25-year-old, who was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court in November, had failed to attend a trial which led to him being found guilty in his absence of possessing cocaine with intent to supply.
Ditchfield, whose last address was in Sheerness, Kent, appeared in court via video link from a Canterbury police station.
He admitted failing to attend court and breaching his bail conditions.
Ditchfield was originally arrested after police raided a property in Kaber Court, Horsfall Street, Toxteth on June 30, 2014.
Gavin Hazeldine
Gavin Hazeldine, 22, of Damwood Road, Speke, jailed for 20 months for possesion with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin
Gavin Hazeldine was jailed for 20 months after being caught delivering £900 of crack cocaine and heroin.
Hazeldine, 22, of Damwood Road, Speke, was stopped by officers on the M62 as he travelled to Warrington to hand over drugs and a “graft phone”.
But on the way back to Wavertree police station, he “slipped the handcuffs”, jumped out of the back door and ran off.
When caught by officers a short distance away, Hazeldine said: “You’ve got to give it a try, haven’t you lad?”
He admitted possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin.
Kory Hodgskin
Kory Hodgskin, 23, of Cathcart Street, Birkenhead, jailed for 41 months for burglary and theft
Kory Hodgskin, 23, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after a court heard he burgled homes in Wirral to steal expensive cars.
Hodgskin was part of a gang forcing open UPVC door handles to break into houses and take car keys.
Hodgskin, of Cathcart Street, Birkenhead, was on licence after being jailed for 14 months for burglary and handling stolen goods.
He admitted burglary in relation to a raid in Burlingham Avenue, West Kirby raid and two thefts of a Mini and Nissan.
Judge Norman Wright said the gang “appeared to have a certain expertise in how to break into houses”.
Joseph Musumeci
Joseph Musumeci, 28, of Meaden Way in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, jailed for 40 months after his attack on a man in Liverpool city centre left him in a coma
Joseph Musumeci, 28, was jailed for 40 months after launching an unprovoked attack on a university graduate which left him with brain damage.
Matthew Webber, 29, was floored by a single punch outside Heebie Jeebies nightclub on August 8 last year.
He spent two weeks in a coma and a further two weeks at the Walton Centre where he underwent brain surgery.
Musumeci, of Meaden Way in Bognor Regis, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm, two counts of assault and using racially aggravated, threatening words or behaviour. He has previous convictions for violence.
Tanya Case-Webb
Tanya Case-Webb
An Old Swan mum who glassed her next-door neighbour in an argument over their daughters was jailed for 20 months this week.
Tanya Case-Webb hit Zoe Taylor with a broken tumbler which left her victim needing three stitches for a cut on her forehead.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how Case-Webb, 27, of Baden Road, Old Swan, later told police her victim “deserved to be glassed”.
She admitted unlawful wounding.
Mebrehtom Abrha
Toxteth rapist Mebrehtom Abrha jailed for ten years
An asylum seeker who raped a young woman as she walked to her boyfriend’s home in Toxteth was jailed for 10 years.
Mebrehtom Abrha, 25, was caught following a BBC Crimewatch appeal after the attack at around 6.30am on Sunday, July 19 last year.
Abrha, from Eritrea in East Africa, pursued his 21-year-old victim for 10 minutes as she headed towards Beaumont Street.
A DNA sample later linked him to the crime. He admitted two counts of rape through an interpreter in the dock.
Jody Modeste
Jody Modeste, who was jailed for 18 months for attacking a woman with a stiletto
Jody Modeste stuck a stiletto heel through a woman’s face outside a Liverpool nightclub after mistaking her for someone else.
The 27-year-old was jailed for 18 weeks at Liverpool Magistrates Court over the grim attack.
Modeste, from Huddersfield, was staying over in Liverpool with friends when she got into an argument with another group of women inside Camel Club, Wood Street.
She pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Julie Green
Julie Green, 46, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Liverpool Crown Court for wounding without intent and common assault
Jealous Julie Green left her love rival with permanent blurred vision after smashing a stiletto heel into her eye.
The 46-year-old of Meadow Lane, Southport, battered defenceless Amy Urquhart as she cowered on the floor before striking her with the shoe in Lord Street, Southport.
Green was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Liverpool Crown Court while her friend and co-accused Carly Rendell, 26, of Ervington in Skelmersdale, was locked up for 18 months.
Green pleaded guilty to wounding without intent and common assault, while Rendell admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.
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