These are the faces of the criminals locked up in Liverpool this week.
Among the cases dealt with at crown court and magistrates court is a man who knocked down a Walton charity worker while fleeing police and a dad-of-two who was caught with up to £80,000 worth of cannabis.
Also jailed was a man who threatened to petrol bomb his former drinking partner’s home and a Croxteth man who threatened to bite a police dog.
John McGee
John McGee, 27, was jailed for eight years at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting dangerous driving and failing to stop on Friday, December 18 last year.
McGee, from Outer Forum, Norris Green, knocked down dad-of-one Walton charity worker Richard Bratin as he walked his dog on Richard Kelly Drive in Walton.
Mr Bratin, 52, and his dog died at the scene and police launched a manhunt for the driver after the car was found abandoned nearby.
McGee went on the run with his girlfriend Abbie Freel, 21, and did not contact police to hand himself in until three days later.
James Mann
James Mann, 32, was jailed for 10 months after he ploughed his car into pedestrian railings, fencing and a garden wall after mounting a pavement in Walton.
The dad-of-two was caught with up to £80,000 of cannabis after leading police on a high-speed chase the wrong way down a dual carriageway.
Mann ploughed his blue VW Passat into pedestrian railings, fencing and a garden wall after mounting a pavement in Walton.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how the courier was found to be carrying four kilos of cannabis, plus a personal stash of the drug and £500 in cash.
Carl Kelly
Carl Kelly, 32, was jailed for five years after he threatened to petrol bomb his former drinking partner’s flat.
Kelly told Darren Bushell he was going to kill him and his two children when the two friends fell out last year.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how Kelly made the improvised bomb out of a vase, cloth and flammable liquid following a two-day cocaine bender.
But the drunken defendant left the weapon at a friend’s home when he went to buy some vodka and was reported to police.
When officers arrested the 32-year-old, he staged a dirty protest in a police vehicle.
Scott Owens
Scott Owens, 21, launched separate attacks on two men in St Helens, leaving one of them blinded, was jailed for 11 and a half years.
Owens broke “good citizen” Kevin Sheridan’s cheekbone after he tried to stop him stealing alcohol.
The 54-year-old sadly died two weeks later from unrelated issues.
Five days before a trial over that incident, Owens went out drinking again and launched an unprovoked attack on Daryl Seddon, 28.
Mr Seddon, who was already blind in his left eye, had his right eye removed as a result of the attack and is now totally blind.
Thomas Broadhurst
Thomas Broadhurst was jailed for 12 months after he threatened to bite a police dog after waving a craft knife in front of a group of children in Croxteth.
The 26-year-old was spotted holding the blade in one hand and a golf club in the other in Sovereign Road on April 3 last year.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how he later approached a police officer – minus the knife – and became abusive to the dog handler.
Robert Jones, prosecuting, said: “He said ‘f*** you’ and said ‘I will bite that f***ing dog if it bites me’.”
George Williams
George Williams was the ringleader of a group of Merseyside scammers who were sentenced over a £5.2m advertising con.
Williams, 51, of Linacre Road, Bootle, who earned £2,000 a week and “lived an extremely high brow life”, splashing out on flash cars, boats and property, was jailed for seven years.
The court heard that Williams and his team of sales reps operated from a rented office on Dale Street in Liverpool city centre and used contact lists traded with other fraudsters to pressure businesses into taking out adverts in “Emergency Services News”.
Williams and his operations manager Gayle Leahair were found guilty with conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and fraudulent trading.
Kevin Fox
Kevin Fox, 73, sexually abused a young girl then branded her a “liar” when she reported his crimes was jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
The pensioner, of New Chester Road, Bromborough, Wirral, denied the historical allegations but was convicted after a trial.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how he committed the offences at his then home in south Liverpool, when the girl was aged between 13 and 14-years-old.
The jury heard how he gave her money, along with cigarettes and alcohol, and that she did not feel able to stop him.
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