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The parents of a thirteen-week-old baby boy have been convicted of his murder.Miguel Pirjani, was admitted to Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool on 24 November 2024 after his father Klevi Pirjani, of Percy Road in Seacombe, Wallasey, had dialled 999.He told the Operator that Miguel “just…
A Merseyside man has been jailed for more than five years after police found more than £17million worth of ketamine in the van he was driving.Paul Farrelly, 46, of Redbank Close in Fazakerley, Liverpool, was stopped by police at around 4.30pm on 16 September 2025, on the East Lancashire Road in the…
A man has been sentenced for driving his car at high speed, crashing it into a historic shelter, submerging it in a lake and then ringing the police to claim the car had been stolen. Harry Mason, 29, of The Mallards in Southport, was spotted by police, driving a Mercedes car in a…
Four people who worked at a Merseyside care home for the elderly have been sentenced for ill-treating a resident with dementia.The staff, who worked at Wavertree Nursing Home, in Pigue Lane, Liverpool, were caught on CCTV, taunting the 85-year-old woman, poking her and throwing incontinence pads at…
A former Merseyside firefighter has been found guilty of grooming and engaging in sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl.Today, (10 October 2025) a jury at Liverpool Crown Court has found Scott Cameron, 40, from Liverpool, guilty of ten offences against the teenager between 2022 and 2024.Cameron,…
A jobless fraudster who claimed to be the “British Kardashian” has been jailed for swindling people out of thousands of pounds in a handbag sales hoax.At Chester Crown Court on 6 October 2025, Jack Watkin, 26, of Wilmslow Road in Alderley Edge in Cheshire, was sentenced to four years and six months…
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A man who took part in two armed robberies in Crewe has been jailed for seven years.Karl Manley, 46, of no fixed abode, was one of two men who stole cigarettes and cash from two Morrisons stores in February last year.Two men wearing balaclavas and one wielding an axe went into the Morrisons store…
"Today (15 August 2025) marks the day that William Woods, one of the most prolific paedophiles that the Crown Prosecution Service in Merseyside and Cheshire has ever dealt with, has been brought to justice for the horrific sexual and violent crimes he committed against eight children over a period…
A man has been jailed for starting a fire that damaged the Liverpool Beatles Museum in the city’s famous Matthew Street area.Daniel Byrne, 38, of no fixed abode, made a concerted effort to set fire to rubbish outside the museum which is in the street where the original Cavern Club once stood.The…
A Merseyside man has been sentenced for sending racist death threats to the former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.Liam Shaw, 21, of Birkenhead, sent two threatening and offensive emails to the public email address of Mr Sunak, who is MP for Richmond and Northallerton in Yorkshire, on the evening of 15…
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Media protocol
To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
