A woman who battered a pensioner as he went to pick up his grandchildren from school, a thug who dragged a homeless man down the street as he clung to his car and a racist who kicked a boy's crutches from underneath him were among the Merseyside criminals jailed this week.
Also locked up was a machete-wielding man who slashed his victim in from of terrified motorists. Meanwhile, Liverpool Crown Court heard that a disabled man spent his final days in agony after being attacked with a beer bottle by a "dangerous bully".
Here are the faces of eight criminals from our region who were imprisoned in the past week:
