A drug dealer who taunted police as he led them on a motorbike chase has previous convictions relating to a gun used in a spate of shootings, the ECHO can reveal.
Peter Stevens was jailed this week for nearly running over pedestrians and officers and quipping "I smoked yous". The incident came only two weeks after he was freed from a 22-month prison sentence for supplying cannabis and was recalled on licence as a result.
And that is not the extent of the 25-year-old's criminal record. In 2015, the then teenager was one of four men locked up for 25 years after Merseyside Police unearthed a gun used in a series of shootings in Old Swan.