A killer member of the Croxteth Crew led police on a car chase at more than 120mph within weeks of being released from prison.
Liam Duffy smashed into another vehicle and brought a lamppost crashing down as the 15-minute chase came to an end. He had only recently been freed from jail, having previously been handed a 20-year stretch for manslaughter over the fatal shooting of teenager Liam Smith, of the rival Norris Green-based Strand gang - then masterminding a multi-million pound drugs racket from behind bars.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Tuesday, that police were on patrol in an unmarked BMW on Dunnings Bridge Road in Maghull at around midday on March 18 this year when a grey Audi stopped behind them at a set of traffic lights. Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, described how the vehicle "quickly accelerated away" onto the M57 when the lights changed.
