These are the people jailed in Merseyside over the past month.
They include murderers who targeted a young dad in a street execution and the boy who stabbed 12-year-old school Ava White in Liverpool city centre.
Strikes by barristers over funding for the legal system have meant less cases are moving through the region's courts - but some cases in the crown court are being heard and magistrates' courts are operating largely as normal.
