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.
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That means many criminals have been jailed throughout Merseyside this month.
Here are the people put behind bars in the month of July.
Darren MacPhee
A shopkeeper suffered a "horrific" 17cm wound after being attacked by a thief.
Darren MacPhee, from Birkenhead, left the employee with a "grave laceration" to his back after the worker attempted to stop him from shoplifting. But the "danger to the public" then called the police claiming that he was the one who had been attacked.
The fighting, which was captured on CCTV, lasted more than 10 minutes both in and outside the premises. During a "fairly prolonged" incident, MacPhee threw the man to the floor and punched and pushed him.
He is thought to have suffered the nasty cut when he was shoved into a shelving unit. The 29-year-old defendant, of Prince Edward Street, admitted wounding and was jailed for two years.
Rebecca Chisnall
A woman punched a hotel manager after being asked to leave for rowdy behaviour.
Rebecca Chisnall was turfed out of the Ibis in Haydock after noise complaints kept other occupants awake in the early hours. The 23-year-old, who is currently serving jail time for attacking a love rival by dragging her down a St Helens town centre street by her hair, has been handed another sentence of imprisonment over the unprovoked assault on the hotel worker.
Several guests had complained over noise from Chisnall's room, including hearing loud arguments, with her and her roommates having been spoken to by staff throughout the night. They were told they had 10 minutes to collect their belongings after she threatened to "knock out" the employee.
Shortly afterwards in the reception area, Chisnall - of Newton Road in Parr - inhaled her vape, blew the smoke in the manager's face and punched her in the head before departing. She pleaded guilty to assault and was handed six weeks behind bars.
Paul Maylor
A thug subjected a carer to a brutal attack that left him so scared for his own life he jumped out a first floor window to escape.
Paul Maylor left his victim in a coma for days after beating, kicking and biting him in a prolonged assault in early 2020. Liverpool Crown Court heard Maylor had been drinking and taking cocaine before the attack at the home of a friend in north Liverpool.
Maylor later went on to seriously injure his nephew in a separate incident while on bail for his attack on Peter Gibbons. He is now blind in his left eye due to the attack.
The 58-year-old defendant, of Clapham Road, was convicted of two counts of wounding. He received 14 years and five months.
Mark Garry
A drug dealer who flooded the streets of Runcorn with class A drugs climbed onto his roof when officers raided his home.
Mark Garry, of Swainson Road in Fazakerley, was selling crack cocaine on the streets of Runcorn until police raided his address on May 30, 2022. When they arrived, he was seen climbing out of the window and onto the roof.
Drug paraphernalia and equipment were found inside the property. The 26-year-old later admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine.
Garry was jailed for four years. Detective Inspector Gary Stratton said: "Garry thought he could evade justice but he is now paying for his crime."
Phil McAlary
A knifeman repeatedly stabbed his flatmate in the stomach after wrongly believing he had stolen his motorbike.
Phil McAlary, of Keble Road in Bootle, flew into a rage with his neighbour over the misunderstanding and laughed maniacally after smearing poo over a communal toilet. He spent hours simmering over the dispute before plunging a knife into the innocent man five times the following morning.
The victim felt three punches to the stomach and stuck his leg out in order to block the attack, receiving two more hits to the knee and shin. He did not realise that 48-year-old McAlary was brandishing a knife and he was actually being repeatedly stabbed.
Doctors discovered that the blade had perforated the abdominal wall and had to perform emergency surgery. The attacker admitted wounding with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm and was locked up for four years.
Adam Challoner
A thug who lured a pizza delivery driver into an ambush and robbed his car at knifepoint remains on crutches months after smashing it into a tree.
Adam Challoner, 26, was hospitalised for three weeks after being pulled from the destroyed Vauxhall Astra on Netherley Road, Tarbock Green, on April 28 this year. The crash, which was not witnessed and involved no other vehicles, came only eight minutes after the terrifying robbery on Hastie Close in Netherley.
The driver was sent to deliver the pizza after a call from Challoner's mobile phone to a takeaway at 10.10pm that night. However, as the driver pulled up, he was approached by Challoner, of Bechers, Widnes, who snatched his car keys from his hand.
Residents living near the scene of the accident later heard a loud bang and found the robber trapped in the driver's seat. He admitted robbery and was jailed for 40 months.
John Skelton
A paedophile was caught attempting to groom 13-year-old girls after savagely attacking his 66-year-old mum with her own walking stick.
Police discovered vile Facebook chats on John Skelton's mobile phone after his arrest over the serious assault, which saw the pensioner suffer a broken arm and have her head split open. In the messages, he implored the 'teenagers' to perform sexual acts and sent naked pictures of himself.
Upon analysis, it was discovered that the 46-year-old had been "deliberately targeting" two teens - who were actually decoys set up by paedophile hunters - by engaging in sexual conversations over Facebook Messenger. The defendant had initiated first contact before "turning sexual".
Skelton - of no fixed address, but previously from Kensington - sent the fake profiles pictures of his penis and asked for indecent images of the pair. He admitted two counts of attempting sexual communications with a child and two of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and was handed a further two-and-a-half years behind bars.
Brian Morton
A child rapist who groomed a girl with sweets and cigarettes has been jailed for 14 years.
Brian Morton, from Halewood, turned his victim against her own family in order to manipulate her for his sick sexual urges - even telling her that her parents did not love her. He also bought her mobile phone top-ups and took her for rides in his car, where he would sexually assault her.
The pervert would watch her while she bathed and "offer to clean her". Then, when she was aged 15, he raped her while she was sleeping in the spare bedroom of his home.
More than a decade later, the now 61-year-old attempted to groom another 14-year-old. Morton was found guilty of two counts of rape and jailed for 14 years.
Kristian Kolar
A pervert secretly filmed his victim having sex with her boyfriend after installing spy cameras in her home.
Kristian Kolar "visually raped" the woman by covertly recording thousands of her most intimate moments for more than a year. When his perverted behaviour was finally exposed, police also discovered sick videos of women having sex with horses and dogs on his computer.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Tuesday, that the 39-year-old, from Warrington, fitted the "concealed" cameras in the complainant's living room, bedroom and bathroom in February 2019. They were only discovered in September the following year, having taken 20,315 "voyeuristic images" and 4,311 videos of her in the intervening period.
This "insidious invasion of her privacy for sexual gratification" also included films of the woman in bed, on the toilet and naked in the shower. Police subsequently seized Kolar's laptop and discovered he had been collecting bestiality porn since 2017.
A total of 17 such images and two videos were found on the device, including a clip which showed a dog "mounting a naked blonde woman" and another involving a woman and a horse engaged in intercourse.
Kolar, of Ross Close in Old Hall, admitted voyeurism and possession of extreme pornographic images. The factory worker, who has no previous convictions and was assisted by an interpreter in the dock, was jailed for 14 months.
Boy A
The boy who murdered schoolgirl Ava White was locked up for life with a minimum of 13 years.
Boy A, from South Liverpool, who was convicted of murder in May, cannot be named for legal reasons. He stabbed the Year 8 Notre Dame Catholic College pupil with a flick knife after an argument about him filming her on Snapchat. Prosecutors alleged the teen laughed and ran away.
They said he ditched his knife, designer coat and mobile phone in a "cover up", then took selfies, got butter for crumpets and played Call of Duty. Boy A gave a false alibi to police and blamed another boy for killing Ava, before changing his story and claiming he acted in self-defence.
The teen said he "didn't mean to" stab the schoolgirl and was "trying to get her away from me". He said he thought she was a boy, who might be armed, and feared she would "batter" him.
A jury found him guilty of murder after two hours and eight minutes of deliberation and a 12-day trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
On Monday, Justice Amanda Yip told him: "Unlike Ava you will still have a chance to grow up, but your life has been changed forever. You will only be released if you can show you are no longer a danger.
"Because of your age, you may be released while you are still a young man. I know that will seem unfair to Ava’s family when they have lost the chance to see her grow up.
"I accept that you did not go out that evening intending to kill, or even to hurt, anyone. You did not know Ava.
"You came across each other by chance. It is a tragedy that the events leading to Ava’s death started with something so small.
"There was a bit of what looked like pushing and shoving between you, and that is exactly where it should have ended. You could have run away and escaped, just as you did after you stabbed Ava."
John Cass
A cocaine "broker" was involved in the supply of more than £400,000 of drugs on behalf of a mysterious importer known only as "Jurgen".
John Cass, from Kirkby, secretly operated under the pseudonym FrostFortress on the encrypted communications platform EncroChat.
Liverpool Crown Court on Friday that the 34-year-old acted as a "broker and intermediary sourcing large quantities of recently imported class A and B drugs". Cass, of Corbet Close, had 64 other handles stored in the contact list of his Encro phone, with messages exchanged with 22 of them.
In particular, he had liaised with the handle JurgenSixNineteen - described as an "upstream supplier operating outside of the UK". The first-time offender took possession of 10kg of cocaine on his behalf, drugs with a wholesale value of between £365,000 and £425,000.
Cass received commission of approximately £500 per kilo for onward sale of the illicit substances. A range of messages recovered by police detail Cass’ negotiations with JurgenSixNineteen, as well as a conversation about the potential of obtaining a gun.
Cass was linked to the FrostFortress handle after being pulled over by police in October last year having been "driving erratically" on Whitefield Drive in Kirkby. He admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis, money laundering and possession of criminal property and was jailed for ten years.
Amanda Bywater and Phillip Park
A nan and her partner plotted for months in an attempt to get a teenager to have sex with both of them.
Amanda Bywater, 48, and Phillip Park, 37 both encouraged each other to have sex with the same girl in a series of messages sent between the pair on WhatsApp. Bywater and Park were both jailed after a judge at Liverpool Crown Court told them he was sure they had the intention of having sex with the child.
Jonathan Rogers, prosecuting, said Bywater, from Widnes, and Park, from Leigh, met on a swingers' website and soon began messaging each other frequently throughout 2019.
He said they soon began discussing having sex with a particular teenager. In messages read out in court, the pair discussed how they wanted to have sex with the child in graphic detail. They would sometimes phrase the messages as a joke but later return to the topic again and again.
Eventually, the pair even discussed plans to have sex with the teen and whether they could ply her with alcohol to encourage her to agree. Their sick messages were later discovered before any sexual activity took place and they were reported to the police.
Park, of Holden Road, Leigh, and Bywater, of Brooklands Park, Widnes, were jailed for four and a half years.
Andrew McMullen
A paedophile performed a sex act during a 19 minute Skype call with an account he thought was run by a 12-year-old girl.
Yet dad Andrew McMullen was actually talking to a police officer when he sent a series of vile messages asking them to perform sex acts and encouraging them to engage in sexual activity.
Nardeen Nemat, prosecuting, told the court McMullen had begun sending messages to an account run by a police officer under the name “Izzy” on a chat site in May this year. Ms Nemat said: “The officer logged onto a chat site called ChatiW under the user “Year8off”. He used a profile pic of a 18-year-old female, which was the youngest option on the drop down menu on the platform.
“Around 12 minutes later ‘Izzy’ received a message from a user, ‘Wirral xx’, a 53-year-old male, now known to be the defendant. His message said ‘watch me’. Izzy replied ‘no thanks’, to which the defendant said ‘shame give good show, make you horny, big c***. Izzy told the defendant she was not 18.”
He continued to message the account and eventually sent a 19 minute Skype broadcast of himself performing a sex act. McMullen was later arrested and police also found 272 indecent images on his phone.
He later pleaded guilty to possession of indecent images, inciting a child to engage in sexual communication and inciting a child to watch sexual acts. McMullen, of Old Greasby Road, was jailed for two years and nine months.
Hamid Akhonzada
A knife-wielding convicted sex offender with a “compulsion” for violence slashed a teenager’s throat with a knife on a Runcorn bus after being moved north from Croydon with no continuity of care - despite suffering a "major psychotic disorder".
Hamid Akhonzada, 26, launched the attack on May 8 last year after sitting behind a young couple on a Palacefields to Brookvale service in Runcorn. Dafydd Roberts, prosecuting at Chester Crown Court on Friday, said Akhonzada grabbed the 17-year-old boy by the hair from behind then “held his head back and drew a bladed article described as a steak knife across the throat”.
The youth tried to evade him and fight back as shocked passengers looked on and his girlfriend, 16, was also slightly injured as she tried to help him. Akhonzada, of Liskeard Close, Brookvale, Runcorn, punched the boy three or four times as they struggled in the baggage hold and then fled the scene when the bus stopped.
Upon their arrival, officers from Cheshire Police found the victim, who was sitting on the bus staunching the blood from his neck with a Covid facemask. Mr Roberts said the teenager received glue and butterfly stitches to treat six or seven “scratches” to his neck, described as "cuts" by Judge Michael Leeming.
Afghan refugee Akhonzada was arrested on May 14 in Croydon, where he had previously lived until being moved north by officials to Runcorn. He gave “no comment” answers in police interview.
Three days later on remand in HMP Altcourse, he beat prison officer Michael Bennett unconscious, first by calling for attention from his cell then punching Mr Bennett. Mr Roberts said Akhonzada had 10 previous convictions for 23 offences including two for common assault and assaulting a constable in 2016, assault occasioning actual bodily harm in 2017, and common assault and sexual assault in 2018 leading to a prison sentence.
Kevin Slack, defending, said Akhonzada was diagnosed with schizophrenia after he arrived in the UK having fled Afghanistan aged 16 after a series of traumas. Judge Leeming acknowledged the seriousness of his condition but countered that convicted sex offender Akhonzada had sought to “self-medicate” with cannabis and spice instead of seeking help.
He said the knifeman had a “compulsion” for violence as he jailed him for four years, with four years on extended licence due to dangerousness. Akhonzada will have to serve 32 months behind bars before being considered for parole.
Cole Thomas
A pervert attacked a woman, sexually assaulted her and stole her possessions on a busy city centre street.
Cole Thomas headbutted and throttled his victim before groping her during a shocking incident outside St Johns Shopping Centre. The 22-year-old then made vile threats to rape her and her family.
Liverpool Crown Court heard on Monday, that the incident occurred shortly before midday on November 9 last year. Thomas, from Aigburth, "began shouting at" the complainant before grabbing her fingers and headbutting her.
She pushed him away, but he responded by "grabbing her round the throat and digging his fingers into her neck". The defendant continued to be "verbally abusive", calling her "disgusting" and saying that her mum was a "paedo".
Thomas, of Mossley Hill Drive, then told her: "I hope you get raped. I will rape your mum and siblings while I'm at it."
He then began "stroking her face" and grabbed her breasts over her clothing as she was pinned up against a wall. The sex offender "suggested she was enjoying it" and added: "How does it feel to be touched without consent?"
Thomas, who appeared in court via video link to HMP Styal with two of his fingers in a bandage, took her purse from her handbag - causing the bag to rip - stole three bank cards and ripped up her train ticket before leaving. Police attended the scene and found the victim "very distressed and crying", while her assailant was located nearby and arrested.
Thomas admitted sexual assault and theft and was jailed for 30 months. He was also handed an indefinite restraining order and a 10-year notification requirement.
Jake Burrows and a 17 year old accomplice
Two burglars targeted 11 properties in one day and stole games consoles, tablet computers and bicycles.
Jake Burrows and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, broke into houses and garages in Aigburth and Mossley Hill during their crime spree. The heroin and crack cocaine dealer and the youth burgled addresses on Rose Lane, Brodie Avenue, Lugard Road, Cherrydale Road, Benmore Road and Mentmore Road on February 8 this year.
Two mobiles phones and a Samsung tablet were taken during a burglary on Avenmore Road while two Nintendo Switch consoles, a wallet and car keys were pinched from a home on Heatherdale Road. The pair also swiped a backpack, an Amazon Fire Stick and bank cards from a house on Bridge Road.
The teenager, from Toxteth, was locked up for a year and three months at Liverpool Magistrates Court on Monday, after admitting six counts of burglary, four of attempted burglary and one of theft. Burrows, of Maud Street in Toxteth, was previously jailed for four-and-a-half years over the same spate of offending.
The 22-year-old also received an imprisonment of two years and four months at Chester Crown Court last month after being convicted of possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply - resulting in a total term of six years and 10 months.
Shaun Wilkinson
A cocaine-fuelled thief took police on a chase past children walking home from school.
Shaun Wilkinson, of Woodchurch Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, stole the keys to a red Honda Civic and a mobile phone from a locker at the Waterworld Leisure and Activity Centre in Wrexham on Friday, June 17. The 28-year-old then used the keys to get into the car, which was parked outside the leisure centre, and drove off in it.
The owner discovered that her car, keys and phone had been stolen at around 2.10pm and called the police. Officers looking for the car spotted it in Chester at around 3.15pm and pursued the car into Ellesmere Port.
During the chase, a rucksack was thrown out of one of the car's windows. Police said due to the dangerous manner in which the car was being driven and the presence of a significant number of children walking home from school, a decision was made to abort the pursuit in the Sutton Way area of Ellesmere Port for public safety reasons.
A short time later, officers located the Honda Civic in the Flatt Lane area of the town after it had crashed into a parked car. Wilkinson had fled the crash scene on foot, without any shoes on.
One of the officers who had been pursuing him found him a short distance away and he immediately recognised Wilkinson as the Honda driver and arrested him at around 4.10pm. The phone Wilkinson had stolen was inside the car, and the rucksack that was thrown out of it was located by officers, the bag contained bolt cutters.
Wilkinson pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking, going equipped for theft, theft of the car keys and mobile phone, dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified and without insurance and failing to provide a blood test for analysis.
The 28-year-old was jailed for two years and banned from driving for three years. He also has to pay a £156 victim surcharge.
Thomas Forshaw
A teenage dealer who "joined the family drugs business" was caught with nearly £20,000 worth of luxury goods and earned "hundreds every day".
Thomas Forshaw was caught with the huge stash of designer gear when police raided his Liverpool city centre apartment. The "feral" 19-year-old had been involved in the operation of three separate county lines gangs which flooded areas in Lancashire and Cumbria with heroin and crack cocaine, which he boasted was "dynamite" and the "best in town".
Liverpool Crown Court heard on Thursday that he was "wooed" into the underworld, which several of his relatives were already caught up in, and went on to earn hundreds of pounds per day. On June 20, 2021, a car driven by a relative and carrying Forshaw as a passenger was stopped on the M6 heading to Barrow-in-Furness.
One flare text, a message sent to multiple numbers advertising drugs for sale, found on the device read: "Best about, dynamite. Mitch".
Forshaw was released on bail but, on March 16 this year, Merseyside Police executed a search warrant at his flat on Marlborough Street. Upon entering the bedroom, the teen was seen by officers with another Nokia phone in his hands.
He "actively resisted" arrest though, and had to be restrained on the bed as a result. During a search of the property, the force seized six mobiles, a "large quantity" of caffeine and paracetamol which were being used as cutting agents, heroin with a purity of around 50% and valued at up to £5,016, £2,000 in cash, a block of cannabis resin and a jar of the class B drug.
Also discovered were "designer clothing and shoes", an Apple watch and a PlayStation 5 with an estimated combined value of around £19,000. Analysis of two of the phones discovered they had been used in the 'Real Jackkk' and 'Kai' county lines, which supplied heroin and crack in Barrow and Morecambe respectively over the previous three months.
Forshaw - who has one previous conviction for possession of a bladed article in a public place and possession of cannabis - admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine, possession of cannabis and possession of criminal property.
He was jailed for four years and four months.
Chris Morriss
A teenage girl had her "childhood stolen" after a vile paedophile raped her 10 times.
The actions of Chris Morriss, 49, formerly of Denecliff, Stockbridge Village, came to light after he was found in breach of the terms of the sex offenders register after being released from prison for previous sexual offences. He had tried to evade detection by changing his name, but was jailed for three and a half years for that offence in July 2021.
While officers were investigating the breach, officers were made aware a 13-year-old girl was raped 10 times by the vile paedophile. Morriss groomed the youngster by buying her presents before assaulting her to satisfy his perverted sexual urges.
The girl described how her whole family had changed because of what Morriss had done and how he had robbed her of the chance to be a normal teenager. Morriss was convicted of 10 rapes on the 13-year-old and was jailed for life in court earlier this week. He must serve at least 11 years before he is eligible to apply for parole.
Lee Walsh
A man broke into a couple's bedroom and left a victim with several facial injuries.
At around 4.30am on April 15, 2022, Lee Joseph Walsh, 51, gained entry into an address on Wolstenholme Square and entered the bedroom. The couple woke up to find Walsh and a fight broke out, leaving a man with injuries to his face.
Walsh then fled the scene with the man’s wallet and bank card, which he later used at a convenience store on Smithdown Road. He was arrested on June 8 after forensic and CCTV investigations and was later charged for burglary offences.
At Liverpool Crown Court on Friday (July 29), Walsh, of Langton Road, Liverpool, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
Rueben Murphy, Ben Doyle and Thomas Walker
A killer launched a rant at a judge as he was jailed for life over the street execution of a young dad.
Rueben Murphy, 26, called the High Court judge a "fat paedophile" and screamed "f*** the system" as he was led to the cells at Liverpool Crown Court today. Murphy, formerly of Barkbeth Road in Huyton, was convicted of murder after pumping two 9mm bullets into the chest of 26-year-old Patrick Boyle on July 1, 2021.
Mr Boyle, living in Kirkdale at the time, was the dad of a three-year-old boy and was expecting a second child with his pregnant partner, hospital ward manager Ashleigh Deans, at the time he was killed. He was standing outside an address in Newway, off Lordens Road in Huyton, at around 5.55pm when Murphy approached on an electric bike and opened fire.
Two rounds hit him on the left side of his chest and he was pronounced dead at Whiston Hospital less than 30 minutes later. Murphy denied he was in the street at the time, claiming he was "off me head" on ketamine and cannabis in a garden in another area of Huyton.
But he was faced with overwhelming evidence, including a pair of black gloves, bearing traces of gunshot residue and his DNA profile, found on top of a kitchen cupboard in his home. CCTV evidence also put him in the area of the killing at the time.
Murphy was convicted of murder after a trial at Liverpool Crown Court alongside his close friend Ben Doyle, now 25, who rode the electric bike, carrying Murphy on the back, to within minutes of the murder scene. Another friend, 21-year-old Thomas Walker, was cleared of murder but admitted handling one of the bullets used to kill Mr Boyle on a date prior to the day of the shooting.
Murphy will serve life in prison with a minimum of 31 years.
Doyle, of Lyme Grove in Huyton, was jailed for life with a 27-year minimum term while Walker, of no fixed address but from Clubmoor, was handed two years behind bars.
Robert Saxon
A violent bully subjected his girlfriend to a brutal assault over a 12 hour period.
Robert Saxon head-butted, punched, kicked and strangled his partner during the attack in Warrington earlier this year.
The woman said Saxon, 50, later told her he would kill her after he got out of jail. He and the victim got into a relationship in April 2021. The court heard that it was later characterised by both drinking heavily and Saxon taking Class A drugs.
Mr Riding said that on January 23 this year Saxon then launched into an assault on the woman at a house on Plumtre Avenue and that this then continued in his house on Yardley Avenue. He said this assault saw him subject her to a range of violence including grabbing her round the neck so hard she couldn’t breath, putting his fingers in her eye sockets and head-butting her.
The woman was later checked by doctors and was fortunately found to have escaped serious injury but she said the attack had a devastating effect on her mental health. Saxon was jailed for two and a half years.
Reece Jon Brown
A drug dealer flooded a town with crack cocaine and heroin before being charged.
Reece Jon Browne, 26, of Eton Street in Walton appeared in court on Wednesday, July 27, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. He was caught after a police operation found he was involved in a County Line, which supplied drugs across Wigan between February and April of this year.
He was finally arrested and charged with supplying heroin and crack cocaine in April and was jailed for five years.
Stephen Spencer
A man ran back to a house he was thrown out of to attack two police officers.
Merseyside Police were called to a domestic incident on Greenbank Drive in the Field Lane Estate on April 10. Patrols rushed to the area shortly after and asked Stephen Spencer, 44, to leave the home to prevent a breach of the peace.
He ran back to the property a short time latter and assaulted two police officers. He was arrested and charged before appearing in Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday, July 27.
Spencer, of Simonswood Lane in Northwood, Kirkby was jailed for two years and seven months after being charged with Section 20 offence of grievous bodily harm against an emergency worker and assaulting an emergency worker.
Jonathon Byrne
A paedophile was caught with hundreds of sick images of child abuse and bestiality on his phones as well as a story depicting a "sexual fantasy" about a drunken teenager.
Jonathon Byrne, 34, was arrested at home on January 9 last year when officers arrived with a search warrant. Jamie Baxter, prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday, said the unit from Cheshire Police’s online child abuse investigation team seized two Samsung phones and took Byrne, of Widnes, into custody for questioning.
Byrne confirmed his personal details but denied having seen any indecent image of a child or having any sexual interest in children. He claimed he didn’t believe any such matter would be found on his devices.
Mr Baxter told the court: “How wrong he was.”
After initially being released under investigation, Byrne was interviewed again on November 5, when he gave “no comment” answers to detectives after a “large number” of abuse images were found on his phones.
In total, there were 283 images and six videos in Category A - the most serious type, 270 still and six moving images in Category B, 186 images and 14 videos in Category C, plus 24 still images and 40 videos of “extreme pornography” - namely of bestiality.
Byrne was jailed for 16 months.
Stephen Carmody
A passerby stepped in when an 86-year-old woman was targeted by a "calculating" thief outside Asda.
Mary Rishworth had popped to the shops to buy a newspaper on April 26 this year when she fell foul of career criminal Stephen Carmody. Carmody, 39, had spotted Ms Rishworth going into the Asda store on Kirkland Street, St Helens, and lurked outside waiting for her.
Ms Rishworth noticed something tugging at her bag and realised Carmody had dipped his hand inside, but he was able to snatch her purse and house keys before fleeing the scene, leaving her on the ground.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Ms Rishworth was not seriously hurt and called for help, grabbing the attention of bystander Carl Molyneux. He gave chase and found Carmody rifling through the purse.
Carmody then threw it to the ground and said "sorry" before fleeing the scene. The purse was returned to Ms Rishworth, who confirmed loose change of between £5 and £10 had been stolen.
Carmody was arrested and initially charged with robbery, which he denied, however the charge was reduced to theft from the person due to the fact he did not use force during the incident. Carmody, of College Street, St Helens, then pleaded guilty. Carmody was jailed for 20 months.
Glyndwr Willis AKA George Williams
A 'depraved' retired teacher downloaded more than 60,000 images of children being sexually abused.
Glyndwr Willis, also known as George Williams, amassed a huge collection of indecent and prohibited images of children over years.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Williams continued to search for indecent images even though he knew police were investigating him and despite the fact he was subject to a court order aimed at stopping him from accessing images showing the sexual abuse of children.
The 72 year old told probation officers he had an addiction to images showing child sexual abuse before a judge jailed him this morning. Nardeen Nemat, prosecuting, said Willis admitted to police he began accessing images of child abuse on the internet in 2011 - three years after he was convicted for possession of indecent images.
Williams, of Winstanley Road, was jailed for a total of 20 months.
Peter Spencer
A drug addict who got in debt to his dealers was forced to let them dig up his concrete yard and install a safe stacked with £180,000 worth of cocaine, heroin and cannabis.
Peter Spencer, 41, was also "pressured and threatened" into running a "graft phone" for the gang, and allowed his loft to be used to grow a "small but sophisticated" cannabis farm. The roofer was at home when Merseyside Police raided the property on September 6, 2019, and quickly found the drugs.
Spencer was living in Chiswell Street, Kensington, at the time with his partner who was also addicted to Class A drugs. Officers who raided his home conducted a detailed search of the house and found a hole in the concrete floor of the back yard, covered with a plastic mat. Inside, a safe had been installed which was openable using the keys found in Bird's pocket.
Inside the safe was a large haul of drugs, including 1.5kg of cocaine, 81g of heroin, 1.6kg of cannabis resin and 350g of cannabis bush. The court heard the estimated street value of the stash was between £89,000 and £187,000.
Spencer was jailed for three years and four months.
Winifred Chapman
A nan set fire to a bedroom in her ex’s house after he broke up with her.
Winifred Chapman started the fire on a bed in the house where she had been living just minutes after Julian Lowe gave her a letter from lawyers telling her to leave the premises.
Her ex was left with burns to his hands as he dragged the drunken 52 year old from the room. A judge at Liverpool Crown Court told Chapman her actions could have killed someone.
Derek Jones, prosecuting, said Chapman and Mr Lowe had been in a relationship for a number of years and she had been living with him and his mum in their home on Coronation Road in St Helens until earlier this year.
However, in the days preceding the incident their relationship had broken down and he asked her to leave the property. The court heard she refused to do so and the atmosphere in the house became increasingly tense before she drank heavily then lit a fire in a bedroom.
Chapman, of Hillside Avenue, Huyton, was jailed for 20 months. A five year restraining order also prevents her from contacting Mr Lowe.
Michael Strange
A thug who attacked a woman has become one of the first in the country to be jailed for the offence of non-fatal strangulation.
Michael Strange, 33, of Nortonwood Lane, Windmill Hill, Runcorn, was sent down at North Cheshire Magistrates’ Court in Warrington last Monday. He pleaded guilty on the day to intentional strangulation, criminal damage, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH).
All three charges were committed against the same woman the day before the hearing, on Sunday, July 17. Strange was sentenced to 52 weeks in prison, and banned from contacting or approaching his victim or entering a named street.
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