Liverpool’s courts were busy once again this month, locking up more than 50 criminals for a variety of serious offences.
Among them was an OAP who travelled from his home in Scotland to sexually abuse a vulnerable boy in St Helens after posing as a 13-year-old online.
Segart Garth Lochead, a former Scots Guard, was jailed for seven years and four months after assaulting the boy.
Lochead was told by a judge that he had “exploited a young and vulnerable individual”.
And a pensioner who sexually abused a young girl then branded her “a liar” when she reported his crimes was jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
Kevin Fox, 73, of New Chester Road, Bromborough, Wirral, denied the historical allegations but was convicted after a trial.
Meanwhile, a St Helens paedophile was jailed for sexually abusing two young girls.
David Sands, 59, was locked up for 14 years for “systematic and repeated” abuse while he was living in Eccleston Park, near St Helens.
In other cases, a burglar was jailed for two years after stealing comedian Bill Bailey’s tour bus from outside Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.
Francis John Whittaker, 35, took the Mercedes Sprinter van from outside the Hope Street venue where Mr Bailey was due to perform as part of his Limboland tour on October 26.
And Widnes man Warren Flaherty, who stabbed his neighbour in an attempted murder bid ‘sparked by jealousy and rage’, was caged for 20 years.
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Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/