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A man has admitted deliberately driving into a crowd of people during Liverpool FC’s Premier League title celebrations in May.Paul Doyle, 54, of West Derby, Liverpool, today (26 November 2025) changed his pleas to guilty at the start of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court to 31 offences including:1…
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…
A man who was under the influence of alcohol and driving at grossly excessive speeds when he killed his friend has been jailed.Martin Green, 36, of Beech Avenue in Lowton near Wigan, was driving his car on Southworth Road in Newton-Le-Willows at around 10.30pm on 10 June 2024. Jonny Menell was a…
Sarah Hammond, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS Mersey-Cheshire said:“The Crown Prosecution Service has today authorised Merseyside Police to charge Paul Doyle, 53 from West Derby, Liverpool, with dangerous driving, causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, wounding with intent to cause GBH and…
Former Premier League footballer Brandon Williams has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after being caught speeding in Cheshire. Williams, 24, who was contracted to Manchester United at the time but was loaned to Ipswich Town during the 2023-24 season, was spotted by witnesses driving at…
A woman who hit and killed a cyclist when she was driving with a frosted-over windscreen, speeding and under the influence of cocaine and cannabis has been jailed.Anya Foster, 32, of Gloucester Street in St Helens, was late for a 6am meeting when she set off from her home at 6:18am on the morning…
A lorry driver who took a tight turn into a petrol station forecourt and ran over and killed a homeless woman asleep on the pavement has been jailed.Alec Keiran, 52, from Bamber Bridge, was driving his HGV into a petrol station on Scotland Road in Liverpool around 8.05am on 10 August 2023.He had a…
A Royal Navy submariner who killed two women when he deliberately drove his car at speed into the middle of a Cheshire road has been jailed for 10 years.Benjamin Lewis, 31, of, Neston, Wirral, was driving his blue BMW in convoy with his partner on the A5117 near Dunkirk on the Wirral, around 9.20pm…
A man who shouldn’t have been driving because of an eye condition has been jailed for killing two elderly female friends on a road in Southport.Glyn Jones, 67, of Blackgate Lane in Tarleton, knocked down Mary Cunningham, 79, and Grace Foulds, 87, when they were crossing Lulworth Road around 4:35pm…
A student at Manchester University has been imprisoned for the murder of her partner after running him over.Alice Wood, 23, was today (Friday 2 February 2024) sentenced to serve a minimum term of 18 years imprisonment at Chester Crown Court.Wood killed her partner, Ryan Watson, who was 24 years old…
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