This list includes 22 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
Courts heard about EncroChat money man "LimeAce" and a banned biker who goes by the name "Joker".
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A judge sentenced a group of thugs linked to a submachine gun and an Italian revolver.
One court heard about a yob who threatened to rape a female prison officer.
Meanwhile, disturbing cases included perverts who downloaded vile images and were caught chatting to paedophile hunters posing as young girls.
And a judge had to sentence a mum who stole more than £9,000 from her employer
Here is an overview of some of to have concluded this past week.
Jamie Smith
Jamie Smith told a supposed teenage girl: "I want to be the man who teaches you everything you need to know about sex."
The 44-year-old, who even called himself a "nonce pedo" in his profile bio online, targeted underage girls on chat forums.
The online predator thought he was talking to a 14-year-old child when he discussed performing a sex act on her and meeting up.
Smith, of Halliday Close, Birchwood, Warrington, sent her a photo of his penis and joked that what he was doing was "grooming a minor LOL".
But he was actually talking to a decoy profile set up by paedophile hunters and it emerged they had snared him with another fake girl, aged 13.
Smith admitted attempting to meet a child following grooming and two counts of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.
He was jailed for two years and three months.
Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward stole more than £9,000 from her employer by faking refund payments to customers.
The mum-of-two "betrayed" the trust of her bosses at Irish Ferries by issuing bogus refunds to customers and transferring the money into her own bank accounts.
The 47-year-old, who was previously spared jail for stealing £23,000 from her last employers, tried to blame blackmailers for her latest bout of dishonesty.
Ward told a judge she had been named and shamed on a Wirral Facebook page about stealing £23,000, which led to men coming to her home and demanding cash, leaving her in fear of violence.
She claimed she initially gave them money from her state benefits, before taking cash from Irish Ferries to pay them off, but a judge rejected her account.
Ward, of Bray Street, Birkenhead, admitted fraud by abuse of position and was jailed for two years.
Adam Jarir
The boss of a County Lines drugs gang known as "Biggie" flooded streets with heroin and crack cocaine.
Adam Jarir, from Walton, was part of a gang which brought Class A drugs to Wigan, leading to estimated sales exceeding £800,000.
The 29-year-old took over people's homes in the borough to store, prepare and distribute Class A drugs, in a method known as cuckooing.
Jarir was one of the group's leaders alongside Jake Muldoon, 23, of Lowerson Crescent, Norris Green, who was also known as "Scouse Joe".
Muldoon was locked up for 15 and a half years in December, when he was sentenced for conspiring to supply Class A drugs and stabbing one of the gang in the head, after the victim 'lost' £5,000 of drugs.
Jarir, of Kingsland Crescent, admitted the drugs plots and was jailed for six and a half years.
Jem Traynor
Jem Traynor downloaded more than 1,000 child sex abuse images including one labelled "paedo archive".
He claimed he didn't have a sexual interest in children, despite police finding the vile collection on his computer.
Officers raided the 51-year-old's house in Ember Crescent, Everton in April last year and found a vast array of sick files, including 167 child rape images.
The former soldier, who said he wouldn't have downloaded the files deliberately, blamed his PTSD from serving in Bosnia and abusing drugs and alcohol.
But evidence showed he'd taken steps to cover his tracks and he later admitted three counts of downloading and one of possessing indecent images of children.
He was jailed for 12 months.
Gary Kelly
A pair of fraudsters pretended to be Netflix, Spotify and Apple to steal millions of people's details and sell them on for profit.
Gary Kelly and Craig Gorton used phishing emails to target subscribers of popular websites between 2017 and 2019.
They impersonated the companies and redirected people to enter details on a bogus website, harvesting names, addresses and telephone numbers.
It is estimated the crooks earned more than £140,000 in cryptocurrency by then auctioning off these details on website called Mirashop.
But this came to an end when their homes were raided by the Dark Web Operations Team of the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit.
Kelly, 32, of Caldy Road, Orrell Park, was jailed for three years and four months.
Gorton, 30, of Rochdale Old Road, Bury, was handed two years in prison, suspended for two years.
Christopher Longworth
Sacked employee Christopher Longworth told his former boss he would "chop his head off" and trash his premises after a row over holiday pay.
The 34-year-old had been employed by Speke Fencing and Gates and his vandalism rampage caused £15,000 of damage and put jobs at risk.
The dad-of-two had been fired on May 28 last year and after leaving the company, made a series of telephone calls to his former boss, Michael Lynch.
In one, Longworth, of Lincoln Street, Garston, said: "I want my holiday payments. If I don't get them I’ll come down and chop your head off and cut your throat."
On July 30, he broke into the business premises in Edwards Lane, Speke, threw paint over a van and smashed its windscreen, left taps running causing flooding, and caused further damage in the office.
Longworth admitted harassment and burglary.
He was jailed for 16 months.
Kieren McMahon
EncroChat drug dealer and money man Kieren McMahon counted and stored huge amounts of cash.
On one occasion McMahon, aka "LimeAce", was holding up to £280,000 as part of a huge drug gang.
Police recovered more than 100 pages of chat logs before arresting McMahon when he flew into Manchester Airport from Amsterdam.
McMahon, of Titchfield Street, Kirkdale, admitted conspiring to supply Class A drugs and cannabis, between September 2019 and August 2021.
He was "the money man" in relation to at least 20 kilos of the Class A drugs, mainly cocaine, and not less than 50 kilos of cannabis.
McMahon also admitted being involved in dealing with 15 kilos of the cannabis.
He was jailed for 12 years and seven months.
Lee Roberts
Banned biker Lee Roberts who goes by the name "Joker" tried to flee from police officers by mounting the pavement.
The 40-year-old was charged with dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance after officers tried to speak to him as he rode a Kawasaki motorbike on Underwood Lane in Crewe on Tuesday, February 8 this year, but he continued on his way.
The rider, of Thorn Road, Runcorn, who has been banned from the road since 2001, admitted the charges.
He was jailed for six months.
Gary Towns
"Controlling" Gary Towns moved into his ex-girlfriend's home after being banned from going near her for the eighth time.
The 65-year-old threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend if she went out after breaching his five-year restraining order against her.
He had been living at her home for five months despite the ban, which was imposed at the time he was last jailed, and while he was on licence.
Towns was jailed for 12 months in March 2021 for the seventh breach of his restraining order, but when released he had nowhere to go so went back to her again.
He was arrested at her home in Widnes on January 14 and later admitted breaching a restraining order.
Towns, of Millar Crescent, Widnes, was jailed for 16 months.
Liam Jones
Liam Jones who threatened to rape a female prison officer – and her mother and daughter – had his prison sentence extended.
The 23-year-old flew into a rage at HMP Grampian in Peterhead, Scotland, when he was asked to pack his belongings and move to a different cell.
He subjected the officer to a "sustained period" of "vile" comments and threats, then boiled a kettle and threatened to scald anyone who tried to enter his cell.
Jones, formerly of Brainerd Street, Stoneycroft, also said he would rape the female prison officer, her mother and her daughter, in the rant on February 9, 2021.
The thug said he would be released soon and would wait outside for her and blow up her car before trashing his cell and causing hundreds of pounds of damage.
Jones - currently serving a three-year jail term for drug dealing as part of a gang in Aberdeen - admitted threatening behaviour.
He received a further nine months in prison.
Vincent Connolly
A dad’s web of lies were exposed when CCTV footage found by his victim's grandad was played in court.
Vincent Connolly, 59, repeatedly punched a neighbour's boyfriend, then called police and claimed he was the one who had been attacked.
He maintained his lies at his victim's trial - only for damning CCTV to emerge, meaning he was later convicted of perverting the course of justice.
On October 14, 2019, Ellis Shead had rowed with his girlfriend at her home in Aurorean Close, Belle Vale, and when he thought he saw Connolly's partner watching, insulted her.
On October 16 he went out to some shops, but was attacked by Connolly when he returned, who inflicted a series of punches.
Shortly afterwards, Shead used a golf club to smash the rear window of Connolly's car.
Connolly called police and said Shead had done that while he was sitting in the car, and that he had got out and hit him in self-defence.
Shead was charged with criminal damage and assault. He admitted the former, but was acquitted of the latter at trial and spared prison.
Connolly, of Aurorean Close, Belle Vale, was jailed for 16 months.
Jason Whinnett
Jason Whinnett bit his ex-partner and beat her brother with a rubber mallet in a vicious attack.
He drank brandy and smoked cannabis before going to the home of his partner's brother and attacking them both.
The 51-year-old also smashed up a coffee table and a TV during his inexplicable attack, on January 17 this year.
Whinnett, of Westmorland Drive, Liverpool city centre, admitted assault and criminal damage.
He was jailed for 12 months.
Alan Kent
"Predatory" child abuser Alan Kent was found guilty of molesting two young girls after offering to pay them "for sexual favours".
The 73-year-old, of Humphreys Close, Murdishaw, Runcorn, was initially accused of a range of offences by one victim, before a second victim came forward.
Thirteen counts related to sexual assaults of a child under 13 and incitement against the same girl while she was between the ages of about six and 10.
A trial heard one charge of attempted sexual assault related to the second victim, who was aged between about 10 and 12 years.
Kent was jailed for seven years.
Cheshire Police is yet to issue his mugshot.
Liam Rogan, Ryan Kennedy, William Egan, John Wells and Anthony McVey
A violent thug exploited his autistic brother by having him keep a submachine gun in his family's home.
Liam Rogan and his "partner in crime" Ryan Kennedy were on remand in prison over the brutal kidnap of a 17-year-old boy.
But they had arranged for Liam's younger brother, Jake Rogan, to stash a Heckler & Koch MP5 at the house he shared with his girlfriend and baby daughter.
Police found the submachine gun with three magazines, one loaded, in a raid at the young family's home in Patmos Close, Everton, on February 15, 2020.
Just days after that gun was seized by police, Liam Rogan and Kennedy used a mobile phone hidden in their cell to order the transfer of an Italian revolver.
They contacted crooks including William Egan, John Wells and Anthony McVey, before police found the gun at a house in Beryl Walk, Fazakerley on February 25.
Liam Rogan, 32, of no fixed address, admitted possessing the Heckler and Koch and was found guilty of possessing the revolver and arranging its transfer.
Kennedy, 28, of Westmoreland Place, Everton, was found guilty of those three offences.
Rogan was jailed for 11 years and three months.
Kennedy was jailed for 13 years.
Egan, of Tenlands Drive, Prescot, admitted possessing the revolver and possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
He was jailed for six years.
Wells, of no fixed address, was found guilty of possessing the revolver and arranging its transfer.
McVey, of Worcester Drive, Clubmoor, was found guilty of possessing the revolver.
Both of them also fell to be sentenced for a "terrifying" aggravated burglary in Stafford in 2020.
Wells was jailed for six years for the gun offences, consecutive to nine years with an extended four years on licence for the burglary.
McVey was jailed for five years for his gun offence, consecutive to eight years with an extended four years on licence for the burglary.
Dodou Saidy
Dodou Saidy repeatedly stabbed a fellow drinker after they had both watched an Anthony Joshua boxing match.
The 45-year-old stabbed Baker Kiweewa after a fight between the two escalated in Prescot Road on September 22, 2018.
Saidy went to a nearby house where he was staying, picked up a kitchen knife and came back and stabbed Mr Kiweewa in the base of his neck and shoulder.
He denied any wrongdoing, but was unanimously found guilty by a jury who heard evidence that his victim's blood was recovered from a ring he was wearing.
Saidy, of Bristol Road, Southsea, was jailed for seven years, with an extended four years on licence.
Merseyside Police said it did not have a mugshot of Saidy.
Dylan Hyams, Kevan Walsh and James Whitehead
A gang of burglars raided a family home and stole sentimental heirlooms in a £20,000 raid.
Dylan Hyams, Kevan Walsh and Jack Whitehead drove a stolen van on false plates to Skipton in Yorkshire last November.
They smashed their way into their victim's home, then ransacked the address, before making off with jewellery.
A white van was stolen from outside the house, along with work tools belonging to the victim.
All three men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle.
Dylan Hyams, 29, of Leadenhall Close in Everton, was jailed for four years.
Kevan Walsh, 32, of Simonswood Road in Kirkby, was jailed for four years.
James Whitehead, 28, of Barncroft Road in Halewood, admitted his guilt at a later stage.
He was jailed for four and half years.
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