From a chippy owner who led police directly to a cannabis garden to a meth dealer who left tens of thousands of pounds of drugs in a taxi, many criminals are the authors of their own demise.
Liverpool courts see a wide range of criminals daily, but in a surprisingly large number of cases, many of those make the police's job much easier by making stupid mistakes.
One man left £35K of meth in the back of a taxi and was eventually caught asleep in a different taxi whilst under the influence of drugs.
