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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Nick Tyrrell

Thug handed second chance by judge but blew it 48 hours later

An arsonist who set fire to a prison cell was given a second chance by a judge - but squandered it by launching a vicious knife attack less than 48 hours later.

Connor Kelly was handed a suspended sentence earlier this year after a judge was convinced the 22-year-old could be rehabilitated outside of prison.

Yet it took him two days to breach that sentence by committing an even more serious offence.

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