This list includes 16 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
Courts heard about a mentally ill man who battered his mum to death with a hammer then tried to kill himself. One judge had to sentence a despicable paedophile who filmed himself abusing a toddler.
Judges had to sentence a woman who gave a love rival a broken nose. And a bully who left his partner needed metal plates to be inserted in her face after his callous attack.
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Disturbing cases included a pair of creeps who abducted a schoolgirl. Meanwhile, courts heard about an EncroChat drug dealer moving kilos of Class A drugs.
A judge also had to sentence a drugged up driver who left a man with life changing injuries. Here is an overview of some of the cases which have concluded this past week.
Rebecca Chisnall
Rebecca Chisnall "ragged" her love rival up and down the street leaving her with a broken nose and two black eyes.
Long-standing animosity between Chisnall, 23, of Newton Road, Parr, St Helens, and the victim, mum-of-two Rebecca McGrath, boiled over in the early hours of January 15 this year. Both women had been in a relationship with the same man, who had two children with Ms McGrath.
At the time of the assault he was with Chisnall, who falsely accused Ms McGrath of not allowing him to "see his kids". The pair first clashed in a bar in the town that night, which led to the victim being thrown out.
They next met near a taxi rank. Chisnall was seen on camera to grab and drag Ms McGrath to the ground, drag her along by the hair, and punch and kick her.
The victim - who is now back with the man - suffered a broken nose and two black eyes. Chisnall admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.
Chisnall was jailed for 16 months.
Peter Neild
Peter Neild who recorded himself sexually assaulting a toddler was caught out by police who recognised his tattoos.
His attacks on the little girl came to light after police found a phone hidden in the headrest of a chair in his Little Sutton home and matched his tattoos to those captured in the video. Officers had gone to arrest him on suspicion of downloading indecent images from the internet, but were faced with vile footage of Neild himself carrying out abuse.
The 50-year-old, who told police "I need help, I cannot continue like this", was labelled a danger to children after police raided his home on January 27 this year. Officers have since been able to identify the child and she and her family are being supported by social services. Neild admitted sexual assault against her.
Neild was also sentenced for an earlier set of sexual offences committed when he was living in Southport, when he was caught out by paedophile hunters trying to groom a young girl online and then arrange to meet her in 2018. He admitted attempting to meet a child following grooming, to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, to incite a child to watch sexual activity, and to engage in sexual communication with a child.
Neild, of Chester Road, Little Sutton, had previously been jailed for rape, unlawful sexual contact with a child and sexual assault of a child.
He was jailed for 10 years and 10 months, with an extended five years on licence.
Harry Beardsmore
Harry Beardsmore cuckooed the home of two drug addicts and used their flat to package and sell Class A drugs.
A lockdown raid at a flat in Torquay saw police find Beardsmore and Brandon Murray packaging and selling heroin and cocaine. The legal tenants of the flat were drug addicts who lived in the bedroom while the two men slept in the living room.
More than 20g of cocaine and heroin was seized, along with £1,500 in cash, on June 22, 2020. Beardsmore, 21, of Bedford Road, Birkenhead, was found guilty of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs and possession of criminal property.
Beardsmore was jailed for four and a half years. Murray, also from Merseyside, will be sentenced at a later date.
Paul Devine
Paul Devine threatened to stab a shop worker before smashing up his shop in a robbery sparked by a row over a mobile phone top up.
He launched the terrifying attack at the Day 2 Day convenience store in Everton Valley on December 20 last year, swinging a large kitchen knife at a terrified worker. The 34-year-old later told police he couldn't remember the incident and wept as he was shown footage of the chaos he caused.
Devine had asked to top up £10 on his phone. The money appeared to go from his account but he couldn't yet see it on his phone records and argued before leaving the shop, then returning in a drink and drug fuelled rage.
The dad-of-one, who shouted "I'll stab you, I'll stab you," admitted attempted robbery, possession of a bladed article and criminal damage.
Devine, of Jason Street, Everton, was jailed for five years and three months.
Joseph Helps
Joseph Helps strangled his partner during brutal domestic abuse.
The 48-year-old, of Main Street, Halton Village, Runcorn, was arrested following the attack on the woman in Main Street on Saturday, May 14.
Court papers said the offence was considered "so serious" and only custody would suffice because Helps had a "flagrant disregard for people and their property". The court heard he had a history of domestic abuse, strangulation was involved, and he was already on a community order. He admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.
A three-year restraining order was imposed banning him from contacting his victim and visiting two named street addresses. Helps was jailed for 12 months.
Andrew Tinton
Andrew Tinton "heard voices telling him to kill" before he beat his elderly mum to death then jumped in front of a train.
He leapt from a railway bridge near Kirkdale station hours after killing his mum by beating her with a lump hammer at least 30 times. It was only when police went to inform Rose Marie Tinton of her son's attempt on his own life that they found the 82-year-old dead in her home in Folkestone Road, Southport.
Tinton, 55, had lived with paranoid schizophrenia since at least 2007. He had largely managed to cope with it, but his mental health deteriorated significantly throughout 2020.
Tinton appeared to be taking his medication and was in regular contact with mental health workers, but the lockdown caused upheaval in the way he was treated. Groups and appointments he would normally attend in person were done remotely and lockdown restrictions impacted on his mental state.
This worsensed even further when his dad, who a judge described as "the key" in his life, died from cancer that August. On January 29, 2021 he killed his mum.
Tinton said voices told him to kill his mum and then kill himself and it was right the two of them die together. He was charged with murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
He was given a hospital order meaning he will be detained until psychiatrists and the Ministry of Justice assess he does not pose a risk to the public.
Andrew Graham
Drug dealer Andrew Graham will miss the birth of his first child after police caught him moving a block of crack cocaine from Liverpool to Scotland.
He hid 107g of Class A drugs in the wheel arch of his car as he tried to ferry it out of Merseyside, but officers discovered it after searching his car. They also found he and another man in the car, Justin Richmond, were dealing cannabis, on November 7, 2020.
Graham and Richmond's phones were seized and it then emerged both had been dealing cannabis on a low level for the preceding two months. Both admitted being concerned in the supply of Class B drugs and possessing cannabis, while Graham also admitted possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply.
Graham, 21, of Tiree Court, Dreghorn, was jailed for three years and two months. Richmond, 19, of Annick Drive, Dreghorn, was spared jail.
Aaron Rowe
Aaron Rowe who vandalised nine police vehicles could have put lives at risk, a senior police officer said.
The 36-year-old, of no fixed address, admitted threatening behaviour towards a woman in Widnes on March 11; two separate assaults by beating against two men on May 11 in Widnes; criminal damage to the ceiling of a Halton Borough Council disabled toilet on May 11; criminal damage towards nine police vehicles in Runcorn; and a supervision breach.
Court papers said the crime spree was "so serious" due to being committed while on licence, a domestic offence, assaulting people at work, and because of his previous criminal record. Cheshire Police said he could have put vital vehicles out of action, leaving patrols unable to get to incidents, which could be the difference between life and death.
He was jailed for 24 weeks.
Ava Jones and Trevor Carr
A 12-year-old child was abducted outside of a busy train station and driven 120 miles away.
Trevor Carr, 40, and Ava Jones, 28, threw a blanket over the child's head and told them to turn off their phone so they couldn't be tracked. The pair abducted the child, who was in school uniform, at Wigan North Western railway station and drove to a campsite in North Wales.
The pair argued during the journey, with the police calling them during the drive, resulting in the child screaming. Jones put a hand over the child's mouth and told officers that her name was David Jones, and that she was camping in Ireland.
But when detectives tracked Jones' phone, they discovered they were at Fferm Cedris Farm Campsite in Abergynolwyn, North Wales. Jones had pitched up a tent and was staying in it with the child, in separate sleeping bags.
The child had started speaking with Jones online in September 2021, when they discussed gender identity. The child's gran told Jones to stop and warned her it was "grooming", but that October 4, Jones and Carr abducted the child.
Carr, of Burns Street, Bootle, and Jones, of no fixed address, both admitted abduction on the basis the crime was not sexually motivated. Carr was jailed for two years and Jones for two years and two months.
Ryan Blake
Scrambler yob Ryan Blake was caught with more than 2.5 kilos of MDMA but told police he was just holding it for his drug dealer.
Police seized around £100,000 of ecstasy when they raided his Hughes Street, Garston home in 2019. Yet in a bizarre claim, the 26-year-old told officers his own dealer, known simply as "Gary", had asked him to hold the colossal amount of the Class A drug - then never asked for it back.
A judge told Blake, who has been jailed before for a cowardly scrambler bike attack on police, his excuse was unbelievable. Police raided Blake's home on November 11, 2019, and found 2.62kg of ecstasy. The drugs, at 32% purity, were judged to have a street value of between £78,000 and £130,000.
Blake admitted possession of the MDMA with intent to supply but said his role was a minor one and he was actually just holding drugs for a dealer to whom he owed a £800 debt.
A judge rubbished his claims and noted he had a past conviction for drug dealing. Blake also admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply, over a separate haul of eight wraps of cocaine, weighing 3.9g, found during a separate police search in July 2020.
He was jailed for seven years and 11 months.
John Neild
John Neild threatened to bury his girlfriend in a hole if she spoke out about his vile domestic abuse.
The 30-year-old attacked the woman - who the ECHO chose not to name - twice in separate attacks just over a month apart, trying to strangle her during the first incident and then knocking her out in the second, breaking bones.
Neild turned aggressive with his partner of nearly three years at home, at around 10pm on Boxing Day last year. He slapped the woman, tried to strangle her, then grabbed a kitchen knife and demanded their friends leave, before pushing her face down onto a bed. When she screamed, he threatened to bite her ear off.
On December 27 he made the threat to bury her and on February 4, after going out drinking, he attacked her, leaving her with facial fractures requiring surgery. Neild, of Barnes Close, Widnes, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm and threatening behaviour over the February 4 incident and assault causing actual bodily harm over the Boxing Day assault.
He was jailed for 16 months.
Joseph Byrne
Joseph Byrne who used the EncroChat handle "FoxHedge" blew kisses to his partner as he was being sent down.
Byrne was a drug broker and courier who supplied narcotics across the country. The 44-year-old was involved with at least 30 kilos of cocaine and heroin, as well as thousands of pounds of cannabis.
In one message he told another EncroChat user he was carrying £38,000 he owed when driving through a police stop check area. Byrne said: "It was heavvvyyy s*** myself."
When police raided his home in Radway Road, Huyton on July 15 last year they found passports, £7,000 in cash, cannabis and scales. Byrne admitted three conspiracies to supply drugs involving cocaine, heroin and cannabis between January 1 and June 4, 2020.
Byrne, whose previous convictions include conspiracy to supply amphetamine, was jailed for 12 years and nine months.
Michael Brandrick and James Donnelly
Michael Brandrick and James Donnelly dealt cocaine and cannabis out of a car in a Toby Carvery car park.
They were caught out when police spotted them sitting in a Volkswagen Tiguan in the car park of the restaurant in Aigburth Road, Aigburth. The pub, formerly known as the Kingsman, was closed because of lockdown. The Tiguan was parked with its lights on next to another car with its lights on, on January 4 last year.
The car stunk of cannabis and when Brandrick, 30, was searched officers found two wraps of cocaine in his jacket pocket and two clear bags in his waistband which contained 13g of the same drug. He also had £300 of cannabis and his mobile phone was vibrating.
He was arrested and when strip searched at the police station a further four wraps of cocaine were found, before officers seized amphetamine at his home in Dovedale Avenue, Eastham. He had £1,700 of drugs in total.
When 37-year-old Donnelly's home in Arranmore Road, Mossley Hill was searched, police found a red bag containing £1,500 of heroin. A bag of £2,070 of cocaine was also found.
Brandrick admitted possessing cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply and possessing amphetamine. Donnelly admitted possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply.
Brandrick and Donnelly, neither of whom had previous convictions, were both jailed for two and a half years.
Allan Breen
Allan Breen who ploughed into a man trying to cross the road had more than seven times the legal limit of cocaine in his blood.
He also had his son in the car as he crashed into Paul Tyler on Prescot Road last year, putting him in hospital for four weeks. The 43-year-old dad, who was already serving a sentence for drug offences, was jailed for two years and eight months after admitting causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Amber Owen, 23, who was driving directly in front of Breen before the accident but swerved to avoid Mr Tyler directly before Breen crashed into him, admitted careless driving. Breen and Owen both stopped at a red light next to each other on the evening of April 14, before driving off at speed when it turned green.
The pair, who do not know each other, then turned on to Prescot Road and sped down it. Owen claimed she felt threatened by Breen and was trying to get away from him - but he denied this.
Breen was tailgating Owen's car and when she swerved to avoid the victim, Breen hit him, catapulting him across the road. Mr Tyler suffered open fractures to one of his legs, plus head and facial injuries, required two surgeries and spent a month in hospital.
Breen, of Regal Road, Croxteth, was jailed for two years and eight months. Owen, of Heather Brow, Claughton, was fined £450.
