Two disturbing court cases this week involving attacks on an elderly man and a disabled victim laid bare the way heroin addiction spreads misery beyond its users.
On Monday, Renee Weaver stood in the dock at after an opportunistic but vicious attack on a 74-year-old man as he sat in his car attempting to reverse off his driveway in the Sheil Road area of Kensington on January 29 last year.
There were disturbing parallels with the case of fellow heroin addict Stephen Earle, 36, who was jailed on Thursday for a vicious robbery on disabled Peter Keppie at the Scarisbrick Hotel in Southport.
