A Facebook thug and a cocaine barber were among those jailed in May to August 2021
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Bent coppers and killer gun thugs were among the criminals linked to Merseyside jailed from May to August 2021.
Liverpool Crown Court heard many of the cases leading to prison sentences, involving everything from killer drivers to a wannabe influencer who stole from vulnerable women.
Judges had to sentence a prison officer who had a baby with an inmate after forming a relationship with him behind bars and the wife of a drug lord who lived a lavish lifestyle off the back of other people's misery
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Disturbing cases included a young rapist who collects "trophies" from his victims, a wicked paedophile who raped boys at a hellish children's home, and a twisted sex offender who blamed his sick crimes on an alter ego called 'Alex'.
The biggest EncroChat case dealt with so far in Liverpool saw a £27m drug boss locked up, and another plot laid bare when the secret phone network was hacked involved two former Royal Marines who imported cocaine in Lego boxes. Below are the details of more than 250 of the men and women put behind bars in May to August 2021.
Lian Clayton dragged her disabled neighbour to the floor in a horrific attack.
The 25-year-old pinned down Karren Bradshaw, who uses crutches to walk, and punched her.
A neighbour said she could hear "bones crunching" as Lian Clayton kicked the vulnerable mum.
Unable to pull Lian Clayton from Mrs Bradshaw, she held the woman's hand in comfort as she was battered and left with a broken nose, black eyes and impaired vision on August 27 last year.
Three months later Lian Clayton and her mum, Mary Clayton, burgled another kind-hearted neighbour in St Helens, when he had gone to visit his sick wife in hospital, stealing their prescription medication.
Lian Clayton admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and burglary. She was jailed for 10 months and three weeks.
Mary Clayton was previously spared jail for burglary and assaulting an emergency worker.
Cyber pervert Paul Pickerill who was snared in an online sting told a '13-year-old girl' she was "a young woman now and ready for sex".
However, the 'child' was in fact an adult from the paedophile hunter group Net Justice.
The 65-year-old, of Lockgate West, Windmill Hill, Runcorn, admitted attempting to incite a child aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity and attempting to engage a child in sexual communication.
The charges related to sick conversations he had throughout March, when he pretended to be 55 and sent the supposed girl indecent pictures and videos of himself. He was jailed for 20 months.
Peter Rawlinson climbed a drainpipe into his ex-partner’s house to attack her - then threatened to frame his victim for cuts he made to his own arm.
The 31-year-old assaulted Kerry Rigby in the early hours of February 23, 2020, about a week after he moved out of their shared home in Laburnum Grove, Runcorn and in with his mum next door.
He climbed through the bathroom window, entered the bedroom and repeatedly punched his ex, causing bruising and a split lip.
Rawlinson was verbally abusive to Miss Rigby, who noticed he had "cuts to his forearms", which he claimed were part of a plot to put her in prison. However, she secretly recorded him confessing to his lies on her phone.
Rawlinson, formerly of Arthur Street, Runcorn, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and was jailed for around 15 months in total.
The killers of a young rapper shot dead in a bungled robbery were locked up alongside their robbery gang.
Liam Watson and Kyle Sanders "lured" Miguel 'Migz' Reynolds from Manchester to Merseyside to buy a stolen Audi S1.
The 21-year-old victim, aka 'Lil Gwop Boy', travelled over from Moss Side to Netherton with a friend on June 7, 2018.
But they were met by the gang, who robbed the pair at gunpoint of £2,000, after Watson threatened to shoot Mr Reynolds' friend.
Mr Reynolds refused to leave, produced a lock knife and gave chase, despite Watson firing a warning shot in Henry Hickman Close.
When he cornered the gunman in a communal garden off Assissian Crescent, the killer shot him in the neck.
The musician died in hospital, three days before his 22nd birthday.
Following two trials, Watson was found guilty of murder and conspiracies to rob, possess a prohibited firearm and possess prohibited ammunition.
Watson, 32, of Litherland Park, Litherland, was jailed for life with a minimum of 30 years.
Sanders, 22, of Charles Best Green, Bootle, who organised the robbery, was convicted of manslaughter and the three conspiracies.
He was jailed for 21 years.
Joseph McKeever, 30, and Dale Avery, 26, were found guilty of the three plots.
McKeever, of Howard Florey Avenue, Bootle, who was also convicted of three unrelated burglaries and aggravated vehicle taking, was jailed for 12 and a half years.
Avery, of Marie Curie Avenue, Netherton, was jailed for 11 and a half years, with an extended three years on licence.
Avery's girlfriend, pregnant mum-of-one Emma Kirby, 23, was found guilty of assisting an offender, namely Sanders.
She was handed a suspended sentence.
Hayley Jones pinned a pensioner against a wall and stabbed him after he refused to lend her money.
The drug addict was accompanied by her young child when she attacked an 83-year-old in his home in Toxteth and falsely accused him of sexually assaulting her.
The victim was rushed to hospital after he flagged down a neighbour who saw him covered in blood.
A CT scan revealed he had suffered a major laceration to his spleen and doctors found he also had a perforated colon and damaged pancreas.
His relatives were told that he might not survive and the OAP, who was previously independent and healthy, had to move into a nursing home.
Jones, 31, who had already borrowed £30 from the victim and wanted a further £30, admitted wounding him in Southwell Place on September 12, 2019 and possessing an offensive weapon.
The mum-of-one, of Elwy Street, Toxteth, was jailed for two years and eight months.
Simon Fitzgerald was jailed for sexually abusing a teenage girl and then threatening to "burn her house".
The 29-year-old, of Whitford Road, Birkenhead, originally denied assaulting the victim, who was under 16.
After being released by police, Fitzgerald then went to the victim's home and shouted through her window.
On another occasion, the paedophile was seen trying to get into her house in the early hours of the morning.
There is help out there for victims of rape and sexual assault and other sexual crimes.
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He was spotted again later, when the victim's mum found an empty petrol can outside her front door in Bury.
She believed it had been left as a "warning" by the convicted robber, who had threatened to "burn her house".
He finally pleaded guilty ahead of a trial to causing a child to engage in sexual activity and witness intimidation.
Fitzgerald was jailed for four years and eight months.
Greater Manchester Police said it was unable to provide his mugshot.
A scrambler bike yob who dealt cocaine and heroin was "raised impeccably", according to his mum.
George Garvey stood in the dock alongside Paul Bellis after they were caught riding scrambler bikes with cocaine, heroin and cash on them.
Dad-of-one Garvey, 24, and Bellis, 23, raised suspicions when they pulled up to Shino's Café in Croxteth with two mates on scrambler bikes.
The yobs were riding without helmets or number plates and while they weren't charged with motoring offences, both were detained after a struggle.
In a bag around his neck Garvey had 22g of cannabis, an ounce deal of cocaine, an "eighth deal" of crack cocaine and 27 wraps of heroin.
In total Garvey, of Bridgeford Avenue, West Derby, had 34g of Class A drugs on him worth £1,680, plus £1,644 in cash and two mobile phones.
Police searched Bellis' mum's home, where he was living, and found 58g of crack cocaine worth £4,656 and 31g of heroin, worth £1,244.
Officers also retrieved 5g of cannabis, a set of scales and another mobile phone belonging to Bellis, of Round Hey, Stockbridge Village.
Both men admitted possessing heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine with intent to supply and possessing cannabis.
They were each jailed for two and a half years.
Lee Monaghan who molested and photographed a sleeping friend had his arm snapped in "retribution".
The 48-year-old pervert targeted the woman, who was in her 20s, after she had earlier come to his aid.
She woke to find him sexually assaulting her, when he brazenly claimed he thought she had consented.
But after he confessed in texts the next day and begged for forgiveness, the victim's sister and others went to his home.
Monaghan suffered a broken arm, which both his own lawyer and a judge remarked many people would say he "deserved".
The drink and drug fuelled attack happened at Monaghan's home in Smollett Street, Bootle, late one night in 2017.
Monaghan, of Linacre Road, Litherland, admitted assault by penetration and sexual assault.
He was jailed for 18 months.
Ira Rose strangled a mum-of-four until she pretended to be dead.
The 37-year-old told the woman "you're mine, you're not getting away from me" as he firmly gripped her throat until she "couldn't breathe".
The terrified victim, who the ECHO has chosen not to name, "played dead" in the living room of her Orrell Park home as Rose checked on her repeatedly and "poured himself a drink".
He then grabbed the woman by the ankles and pulled her "as if she was dead", as her children slept upstairs on March 6 last year.
Rose, of Princethorpe Road, Birmingham, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and was jailed for 22 months.
However, the crook, whose record includes wounding with intent, aggravated burglary and common assault, was already subject to licence on a previous imprisonment for public protection sentence, meaning he will only be released when a Parole Board considers he is no longer a risk.
James Renshaw was caught with a loaded gun when he cycled towards a primary school as parents arrived to pick up children.
The teenager was on an electric bike as he and three friends approached Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Halewood.
But as they passed Maple Lodge Care Home in Arncliffe Road, they were challenged by two police officers, who smelled cannabis.
CCTV footage showed then 18-year-old Renshaw ditch his bike and run, only to be caught by officers and call out to his friends for help.
They fled when a third officer arrived - one of the group taking the bike - before police searched two manbags Renshaw was wearing.
One revealed a loaded silver semi-automatic Beretta pistol and the other up to £1,300 of cannabis, including edible cannabis sweets.
Officers spotted 21-year-old Ian Burrows from the group and tried to stop him as he cycled on another bike into nearby Stanford Crescent at around 3pm on January 6 this year.
He was caught and found to have a sawn-off Mossberg 500 pump action shotgun hidden down his jogging bottoms.
Renshaw, now 19, admitted possessing a prohibited firearm and ammunition, and possessing cannabis and cannabis resin with intent to supply.
He was locked up for five years and seven months.
Burrows, now 22, of Knowl Hey Road, Halewood, admitted possessing a prohibited firearm.
He was jailed for five years and one month.
Jason Kelly drained a seriously ill pensioner's life savings then claimed he was placing bets for him.
Charles Lynch was thought to only have a few months left to live due to heart problems and a brain tumour.
But his son James Lynch's boyfriend, Kelly, exploited his "acute confusion" to fund online betting sprees.
Kelly even told police Mr Lynch authorised nearly £50,000 of losses - a lie that forced the then 70-year-old to go through the ordeal of giving evidence.
Mr Lynch was 68 and in "poor health" in 2017 when Kelly was living with the Lynch family in Speke, before the OAP spent more and more time in hospital.
Doctors believed he only had a few months to live but Kelly - who had access to his debit card and PIN - drained one account from around £47,00 to £648.
Kelly, 33, of Grampian Road, Fairfield, only admitted theft after Mr Lynch had already been cross-examined at a pre-recorded hearing.
The convicted cocaine and heroin dealer was jailed for two years and eight months.
Liam Ellis was caught with a double razor blade shank hidden inside one of his trainers at HMP Altcourse.
The teen was locked up for 10 months after he was spotted boarding a Merseyrail train with a hunting knife down his tracksuit bottoms.
When arrested in May last year, the 18-year-old said he had the "terrifying" 10.5 inch blade for "protection" because "I'm a wanted man".
Just over a month after being sentenced in September, Ellis - nicknamed "Curly" - was caught with a homemade weapon at HMP Altcourse.
He was about to be taken to hospital on October 24 and said he had made the shank to protect himself after being beaten up in prison.
Ellis, now 19, of Manica Crescent, Fazakerley, admitted possessing a bladed article.
He was locked up for 10 months.
Banned driver Lee Roberts tried to claim he was his twin brother after being caught at the wheel.
The 39-year-old was pulled over in a hired white MG ZS near to his home on Thorn Road in Runcorn.
Officers suspected the driver was already disqualified, and asked for his name and to see his driving licence.
Roberts claimed to be his twin brother, then presented a driving licence with his brother's name.
But he eventually admitted his real identity and the fact he had been banned since 2001 on November 28 last year.
Roberts admitted driving while disqualified, having no insurance and using a licence with intent to deceive.
He was jailed for 16 months and banned from the road for 20 months.
Rachelle Mikhnevich attacked NHS workers during an outburst that resulted in "carnage" at a hospital.
She was at Clock View Hospital in Walton when she launched an attack after being given a cup of tea she complained was too cold.
The 37-year-old grabbed and twisted one hospital worker's arm before punching, spitting and kicking at six other NHS workers trying to help.
Hospital workers were left with bruises, pain, swelling and scratches after Mikhnevich's attack.
During the violent rampage she launched a "disgraceful" racist outburst at Abdulmalik Abadullah-Atta, calling him the N-word, using other racial slurs and biting his hands and fingers, on February 12 this year.
Mikhnevich, of no fixed address, admitted eight assaults on emergency workers and racially aggravated harassment.
She was jailed for 11 months.
Philip Jones raped a little girl who had just been sick when he was pretending to comfort her.
The former soldier was previously branded a "danger to women" after he made thousands of searches on internet rape websites, then spiked a victim's drink.
He was caught by a doorman at a Wirral pub putting powder into a woman's drink so he could sexually assault her in 2013.
Jones, who also downloaded child sex abuse images, was jailed for five years, with an extended three years on licence, in 2014.
Last December he was sent back to jail for hiding a phone from police, after secretly working as a maintenance man in family homes.
But it then emerged the 59-year-old had also raped and molested a little girl, prior to his arrest in 2013.
That abuse only came to light when the child revealed in May 2020 that she had been living with the trauma for nearly a decade.
Jones, of Poulton Road, Seacombe, admitted two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault.
He was jailed for 13 and a half years, with an extended five years on licence.
Leanne Noon tried to stab her ex boyfriend to death after climbing into his home through a broken window.
The mum left Jeoffrey Hoare pouring with blood after forcing her way into the room he had barricaded himself in.
The 42-year-old frantically stabbed him to the head and torso before he was able to escape.
Hoare fled in a desperate search for help, trying not to leave trails of blood that would lead his attacker to him in Netherley.
A jury heard the facts of the case were not disputed, but Noon was found not guilty by reason of insanity of attempted murder, assault causing actual bodily harm and two counts of possessing a knife.
The charges related to two separate incidents, which took place within months of each other on August 28 and October 18, 2019.
Noon, now of Rowan View, Rainhill, who has a psychological affective disorder, was given an indefinite hospital order.
Mark Jacobson raped a child and forced them to watch sexual acts.
The 44-year-old, of Washington Parade, Bootle, was found guilty after a trial of 16 counts of sexual offences.
They included two counts of rae, two counts of attempted rape and multiple counts of sexual activity with a child, causing a child to watch a sexual act and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.
Jacobson was jailed for 16 years.
Wayne McColl led police to a "substantial amount of crack cocaine and heroin" when caught for the second time in two weeks.
The 48-year-old, of Grosvenor Road, Birkenhead was first arrested on June 5, 2020 mid drug deal after being spotted by members of the public.
He was arrested and a search of his home recovered more drugs and another suspected dealer, Shane Gaffney, 49, also of Grosvenor Road.
Both were arrested for possessing crack cocaine, heroin and cannabis with intent to supply
Just over a month later, McColl was arrested again on July 19 after being caught in the middle of another drug deal.
Another search of his home led police to find a "substantial amount of crack cocaine and heroin".
McColl was jailed for two years and eight months, while Gaffney received two years and three months.
Paul Long slapped and groped the bottoms of two girls while working as a security guard at a fairground.
The former doorman was employed at a temporary funfair when it came to Birkenhead Road in Seacombe.
But the "large and physically imposing" 59-year-old preyed on two children in separate incidents on the same day.
He slapped the bottom of a 15-year-old girl while giving her first aid, then laughed in her face and followed after her.
Long then trapped a second girl, 14, on a Waltzer ride and grabbed her bottom, before squaring up to her dad when he arrived.
The now 61-year-old, of Huddleston Close, Woodchurch, Birkenhead, struck twice on March 28, 2019.
He was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault after a trial and jailed for eight months.
Leon Cullen spearheaded a gun and cocaine network which stretched from Warrington across the North West.
The 33-year-old fled abroad in January 2018 when he learned police were about to strike and spent two years hiding in Dubai before his arrest last year.
Cullen, who operated alongside his brother Anthony - jailed for 26 years in 2019 - was responsible for supplying high purity cocaine, about 50kg in total.
Leon was in control of a startling arsenal of guns, including a functioning AK-47 rifle, a pump-action shotgun, semi-automatic pistols and revolvers.
Those guns were found inside a house in Warrington where a mum and her young child lived, with weapons discovered in an ottoman and inside a loft.
Vehicles were used to transport the drugs, including a car which had a secret hide, which was controlled by a device linked to the cigarette lighter.
The brothers had links to criminals in Liverpool including Lee Stoba and one of their guns was previously used in a shooting at a home in Bootle.
Leon, formerly of Honister Avenue, Orford, admitted conspiring to supply firearms, possess ammunition and supply cocaine.
He was jailed for 22 and a half years.
Aiden Peel filmed a disgusting toilet video of a woman on his phone but it was discovered by his girlfriend.
Peel downloaded a Secret Camera Recorder app and placed his mobile in a bathroom to capture an unsuspecting victim.
The 24-year-old recorded the woman going to the toilet, undressing until she was naked for a shower, then towelling herself dry.
But the voyeur also inadvertently filmed himself setting up the covert device on a sink and returning afterwards to collect it.
Peel later claimed that he downloaded the app after being "inspired" by a YouTube video and thinking it would be good for "pranks".
However, he kept the footage for five or six weeks, until it was "discovered by chance" by his girlfriend who contacted the police.
Peel, of Mersey Road, Aigburth, was found guilty of voyeurism after a trial.
He was jailed for nine months.
A woman suffered two miscarriages while in a controlling relationship with Pa trick McConnell who bullied and battered her.
A judge said he subjected his then girlfriend to vile abuse and 'treated her like his possession' from August 2020 until January 2021.
When she became pregnant for the first time, McConnell said he would 'stress her out until she lost the baby' adding "it will be funny".
The woman, who the ECHO chose not to name, suffered a miscarriage days later, although a judge said there was no evidence the two incidents were linked.
Months later, McConnell punched her, headbutted her and banged her head against a wall while she was pregnant for a second time.
Neither of them knew she was pregnant when he carried out the attack, but the woman again lost the baby. The judge said there was no evidence the assault could be linked to that miscarriage either.
McConnell, 34, of Hollingbourne Road, Norris Green, admitted controlling and coercive behaviour, assault causing actual bodily harm.
He also admitted breaching a suspended sentence for disclosing a private sexual photograph.
McConnell was jailed for two years and 10 months.
Edward Stanton was convicted of sexually abusing an eighth victim at a hellish children's home in Formby.
The paedophile raped and molested youngsters in his care at the infamous St Vincent's home from 1976 to 1995.
The former house master was jailed for 13 years in 1996 for sexual offences committed against seven boys, aged between 10 and 13.
The 69-year-old was back in court for a trial when he was found guilty of two more sex attacks against an eighth victim.
They related to a 13-year-old boy, who he twice indecently assaulted in the early 1980s, leaving the victim with psychological scars.
Stanton, formerly of Kirkdale, but now of Earle Road, Wavertree, had claimed someone else was responsible for the abuse.
He was jailed for three and a half years.
Reece Lowndes ran through streets waving a seven inch kitchen knife as he was chased by the police.
The teenager was seen by a concerned member of the public waving the blade around in Corporation Street, St Helens on January 22 this year.
When officers arrived the then 19-year-old fled and when a female officer caught up with him, he hit her in the face, knocking her to the ground, before throwing the weapon away and jumping 15 to 20ft from a bridge.
Lowndes, of Derbyshire Hill Road, St Helens, admitted assaulting an emergency worker and possessing a knife in public.
The now 20-year-old was jailed for 12 months.
Alex Slocombe sexually assaulted two women while they slept.
The 23-year-old predator, from Warrington, molested his victims on separate occasions in 2017 and 2020.
Slocombe, of Duxford Court, Poulton-with-Fearnhead, admitted three counts of sexual assault by penetration.
Cheshire Police said his actions had a "profound and long lasting impact" on the women, who struggled to come to terms with what happened.
Cheshire Police is yet to release a mugshot of Slocombe.
Gerald Brown threatened to electrocute his wife after discovering she was having an affair.
The 59-year-old repeatedly punched his partner, "whipped" her with a belt and warned he'd kill her with a knife.
The brute also said he would do the same to their dogs and attacked one of their pets on New Year's Eve 2018.
He picked up a lamp and was "threatening to electrocute her" with it by smashing it and putting it "in her mouth".
Brown, of Wood Street, Litherland, always denied carrying out any attack on the frightened mum-of-four.
But he was found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm, after a trial when photos of her injuries were shown.
Brown was jailed for 12 months.
Melissa Wilson used library computers to search for "Harry Potter erotica" and "fetish sites" focusing on children in their underwear.
The paedophile managed to bypass security systems at Liverpool Central Library and Toxteth Library.
After creating library accounts the 34-year-old would attend "almost every other day" and used a Russian search engine "associated with accessing illegal files".
She later confessed to the crimes, between July 10 and October 23 in 2019 on 86 days, in a letter from her alter ego, Dan Thompson.
Wilson admitted breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order imposed for possessing indecent images of children.
She was jailed for two years and eight months.
Drug addict Danielle Costello resorted to selling crack cocaine and heroin to pay off a debt to dealers who had "taken over her life".
The 38-year-old, of Clarence Terrace, Runcorn, was first caught by police on Thomas Street in the town on November 12, 2019.
She was found with 13 wraps of crack and five wraps of heroin worth around £180, along with a mobile phone containing a text urging someone to "get on me when you want", a phrase used by dealers.
She was arrested again when a plainclothes officer stormed a property in Thomas Street after being assaulted by another dealer.
Costello was in the back yard and a phone seized bearing her DNA showed she had been involved in supplying heroin and crack, which were found in the house.
She admitted two counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply and two counts of being concerned in Class A drug supply.
Costello was jailed for three years.
Colin Robinson engaged in filthy online conversations with a 13-year-old girl hoping they could meet up.
The 75-year-old encouraged the child to bunk off school, sent her an indecent video of himself, and said he wanted to seduce her.
When told she lived in Manchester, he replied: "You are now in big trouble, it's just down the M57."
But unknown to the Wirral grandad he was actually chatting with an undercover officer posing as the school girl, in September 2019.
The retired Cammell Lairds worker, of Borough Road, Seacombe, admitted five offences involving attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act, attempting to incite a child to engage in a sexual act, and attempted sexual communication.
He was jailed for two years.
Scott Patel who was caught trying to bring £1m of cocaine to Liverpool claimed he would have been paid just £500.
Patel, who owns two barber shops, was stopped on the M62 by police who found 10kg of the Class A drug hidden behind secret panels in a Ford C-Max.
The 33-year-old said he agreed to transport the "enormous" amount of drugs for £500 after his shops struggled to cope financially during the coronavirus pandemic.
The barber, who has no previous convictions, was arrested at around 11.30am on April 20 this year.
Tom Watson, defending, said: "He allowed himself to be involved in this for the paltry figure which he never received, £500."
Patel, of Oldham Road, Manchester, admitted supplying cocaine.
He was jailed for six years.
"Sweating" and naked pervert Trevor Smith ogled a group of teens from his balcony as he performed a sex act on himself.
A horrified onlooker witnessed the 50-year-old performing the sex act while looking at a group of around nine teenagers.
She said she "felt physically sick" and called police, who discovered him "sweating profusely" and "out of breath" as porn played on his mobile phone.
The disgusted onlooker had been alerted to a noise in the street at about 9.50pm on March 18 this year.
Smith, who also had a bag of cannabis in his flat, has previous convictions for outraging public decency, including misbehaving with a cleaner's cone, for which he received a suspended sentence in 2019.
The sexual deviant, of Hall Street, St Helens, admitted possessing cannabis, exposure and breaching a suspended sentence order.
He was jailed for 10 months.
A crook described as a 'Jesus lookalike' was sent back to prison after spending seven months on the run.
Joseph McCarthy was recalled to prison but refused to hand himself in, telling a probation officer he had a job outside of Merseyside.
Merseyside Police took to social media to try and track down the 26-year-old, posting his mugshot on their Facebook account.
People were quick to comment on McCarthy's appearance, with many people online likening him to Jesus Christ.
McCarthy was jailed for possessing ammunition in 2018, then set free and recalled once in 2019, then re-released in June that same year.
But he then failed to engage with the probation service and following yet another recall in April 2020, he remained at large until October 2020.
McCarthy, of no fixed address but with links to Kirkby and Ellesmere Port, was jailed for six months.
Farieissia Martin stabbed the father of her two children in the heart after he grabbed her neck in a drunken argument.
The mum-of-two, 28, admitted killing her 21-year-old boyfriend, Kyle Farrell, at their Dingle home in November 2014.
Following a trial in 2015, Martin was found guilty of his murder and jailed for life, with a minimum of 13 years behind bars.
But after successfully appealing the conviction, she was due to face a retrial this week, only to plead guilty to manslaughter.
Martin stabbed her childhood sweetheart after he "grabbed her by the throat" during a 4.30am row about how late she had stayed out.
The mum hid the knife and initially claimed an unknown intruder had broken into their Charlecote Street home and stabbed Mr Farrell.
She later admitted doing it, but suggested it was in self-defence, following a history of domestic violence at his hands.
Martin now accepts it was an unlawful killing.
She also admitted having a razor blade and a phone in jail, which she had used to make presents for her daughters and to call them.
Martin was jailed for 10 years and nine months, having already spent almost seven years in prison.
Drug dealer Carl Stewart's love of cheese proved to be his undoing.
Stewart used an EncroChat phone with the handle "ToffeeForce" to cover his tracks as he supplied large amounts of cocaine, heroin, MDMA and ketamine.
But when the encrypted phone network was busted last year, he was identified after sharing an image of a block of Stilton cheese in the palm o f his hand.
Detectives analysed his palm and fingerprints from the picture and it was established they belonged to Stewart.
Stewart, 39, of Gem Street, Vauxhall, admitted conspiring to supply the Class A and B drugs, plus transferring criminal property.
He was jailed for 13 and a half years.
Sarah Clarke who helped her killer partner evade police begged for "mercy" for the sake of her little boy.
The single mum now has two former boyfriends serving life for murder - her eight-year-old son's dad and stepdad.
Her child's father, Damian 'Scarface' Gorman, carried out a pub assassination with infamous cop killer Dale Cregan.
The boy's stepdad, Stephen Strutt, was one of four killers who murdered dad-of-one Warren Glover in St Helens.
Clarke, 30, for sentenced for her "deliberate lies" to police about Strutt's whereabouts after the attack on Mr Glover.
She later hid the killer in a Blackpool hotel room, booked using her aunt's bank card, where the couple were arrested.
Strutt, 39, and three others were found guilty of murdering Mr Glover on Saturday, June 13 last year.
Clarke, of Chester Avenue, Stalybridge, was convicted of assisting an offender after the same trial.
She was jailed for 21 months.
Scott Worthington and Mark Birch raced cars "for fun" but a cyclist was left with brain damage.
Bogdan Pohrib, then 25, suffered multiple injuries and two and a half years later remains badly affected.
His hopes of training to become a doctor lie in ruins as a result of the crash, on Lord Street in Southport, on November 24, 2018.
Worthington, 28, whose Seat Cupra ploughed into Mr Pohrib's bike, admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
His lawyer told the court that he has since had a stroke, which Worthington describes as "karma".
Worthington, of Park Road, Southport, was jailed for two years and banned from driving for four years.
Birch, 29, of Sturt Road North, Bootle, who was racing him in a Mercedes, admitted dangerous driving.
He was jailed for 13 months and banned from driving for three and a half years.
Kamil Lesiak was part of a monstrous gang who kidnapped, tortured and raped another man.
He was the last of the group to be jailed after forcing the victim to commit depraved sex acts in a 10-hour attack.
The 27-year-old man was kidnapped in Bootle in November 2015 and kept against his will at a house in Simons Croft, Netherton.
Lesiak and Daniel Misiolek, whowas jailed for life with a minimum of nine years in 2016, subjected him to physical and sexual assaults.
Around 90 minutes of his ordeal were filmed by Misiolek's girlfriend, Awna Baszak, before he finally escaped when the gang went out.
The victim was initially attacked at a home in Bootle - days after another one of the gang, Dagmara Szary "appeared to have taken offence" to mobile phone photos she claimed to have seen.
Lesiak, 25, of no fixed address, was found guilty of false imprisonment, assault causing actual bodily harm, rape and causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
He was jailed for 18 years.
Drug boss Steven Nicholls boasted about buying his partner a £100,000 diamond watch for Christmas.
The 41-year-old crook, aka EncroChat user "CubRing", dealt with the importers of drugs as he led a 116kg cocaine and heroin plot.
Nicholls directed "lieutenant" Dean Deary, who went by the handle "RecoveryMan" - a nod to the recovery business he used as a "cover" for their illicit trade.
Deary, 39, of Pinehurst Avenue, Anfield, deployed cars with secret compartments or "hides" - vehicles referred to as "pies" - for moving drugs and cash.
The plot saw Nicholls, 41, of Ibbotsons Lane, Aigburth, reap the rewards, as he sent a picture confirming his current running balance of £1,335,500.
Detectives identified huge amounts of money hidden at a safehouse in Everton, where they recovered more than £500,000 hidden under floorboards.
A raid at Deary's home then saw five kilos of up to 86% pure cocaine seized, which when cut could have had a street value of up to £500,000.
Their plot involved the supply of an estimated 112kg of cocaine and 4.5kg of heroin between March 26 and June 22, 2020.
Nicholls admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and heroin, to transfer criminal property, and to commit arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered - relating to two incidents not connected to his drug dealing.
He was jailed for 16 years and eight months.
Deary admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis.
He was jailed for 12 years and eight months.
A bus passenger woke up surrounded by smoke with the driver screaming after teen yob Logan Pritchard set fire to one of the seats.
Logan Pritchard, then 17, was "messing around" with a lighter after boarding the 10A Stagecoach bus on Bridge Street in St Helens.
He got off around 20 minutes later in Prescot but had lit one of the seats on the top deck, while a college student slept at the back of the bus.
The bus was evacuated as a result of the blaze, which caused more than £16,000 of damage and cost Stagecoach £30,000 overall due to the loss of the bus.
Pritchard said he had left the bus before the fire broke out and claimed that he didn't realise he had set fire to the seat, at around 11.15am, on January 28, 2020.
The now 18-year-old, of Hillside Avenue, Denton Green, St Helens, admitted arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered
Pritchard, who had no previous convictions, was locked up for two years and nine months.
Three Encrochat drug bosses who thought they were "invincible" bragged in chats about "drug dealing at its best".
Mark Dumbell, Philip Dearden and Shaun Harrison dealt 58kg of cocaine using their encrypted phones during a three-month period last year.
A judge said they were "driven by money and greed" when boasting about their earnings on the messaging platform hacked by the French authorities.
Dumbell, aka EncroChat user "BullMouth", was found to have £28,000 of jewellery and designer gear when police raided his home on December 15.
He admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, cannabis and ketamine.
Dumbell, 30, of Warrington Road, Prescot, who had no previous convictions, was jailed for 16 years.
Dearden, who owns the Bowling Green Pub in St Helens, used the handle "LoyalAnimal" and wrote "drug dealing at it best, I like it!" and "don't let a good pandemic get in the way of it" during chats.
The 31-year-old, of Westleigh Place, Sutton Leach, who had 11 previous convictions, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis.
Dearden was jailed for 15 years.
Harrison operated as both "ScantBee" and "SandFerret" while they dealt enormous amounts of drugs and had more than £17,000 in cash hidden at his house.
The 33-year-old, of South Street, Thatto Heath, who had seven previous convictions, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and cannabis.
Harrison was jailed for 10 years and eight months.
Vodka-fuelled Kieran Harris threatened to kill cabin crew after an air hostess asked him to wear a face covering.
The 19-year-old, from Garston, put two air hostesses in fear for their lives after he began "foaming at the mouth" during a foul mouthed tirade.
During the three-hour Easyjet flight from Alicante in Spain to Manchester, Harris told Caroline Callaghan: ''I know people - I'm not scared of the police.''
He then demanded Dorota Kazimierczak give him oral sex when she asked him not to remove his safety belt due to the plane making its descent.
Harris told the Polish flight attendant: ''Come here and make me, and while you’re at it, suck my d**k. I will f**k you up. You and your stupid sh*t Eastern European accent. I will f***ing kill you. Bring your boyfriend here, and I will f***ing kill him too. I’ve killed people, and I will kill you as well.''
The teenager, who was flying alone, was escorted off the flight by police after the plane touched down at Manchester Airport on March 13 this year.
Harris, who had no previous convictions, admitted being drunk on an aircraft and using threatening behaviour.
He was jailed for 12 weeks.
Paedophile Dylan King was caught living with a mum and children who had no idea of his sinister past.
King was convicted of sexual activity with a child in 2012, when he was jailed and told to sign the Sex Offenders Register.
But he has repeatedly breached his notification requirements by failing to inform police of his address and last year "disappeared" for several months.
He was eventually found living with a woman and her children in Teesside, after meeting her on a dating app, and not disclosing he was a sex offender.
King, of Grey Road, Walton, was sentenced over that breach last June, but fell to be sentenced for a previous breach, committed in February 2020, when he moved without telling police his new address.
He admitted failing to comply with his notification requirements and was jailed for 12 months.
Steven Taylor told police "anyone who's had those Encros is f***ing going" when officers found a secret room containing a drug factory at his home.
Detectives struck at the Norlands Park, Widnes address of 33-year-old Taylor - already a convicted Class A drug dealer - on April 9 this year.
Investigators discovered a carrier bag of £26,000 of cocaine and heroin in the living room, in addition to the hidden room, which was attached to the garage and contained a hydraulic press that matched one in decrypted pictures sent by Taylor under the alias "VileCrusher", between March and June 2020.
Prosecutors said Taylor had been using the press and other equipment to compress the drugs into blocks after they had been mixed with cutting agents so they appeared like uncut import quality drugs and could generate more cash.
One room in the property matched a room from photographs sent by VileCrusher showing a cannabis farm.
Taylor admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis, and to conceal criminal property.
He was jailed for 12 years and eight months.
Michael S cally grabbed a metal tool from his pocket and used it to wound three people after he was attacked on a night out.
The 26-year-old used a bevel square - an adjustable tool used by woodworkers - in what was described as "excessive self-defence".
Scally, of Ormskirk Road, Upholland, Skelmersdale, kept the metal tool in his pocket after finishing work as a joiner earlier in the day.
He left victims Keenan O'Neill, Logan Joiner and Rachel Elstone with cuts, lacerations and punctures caused by the tool.
The incident happened in the early hours of December 12, 2019, when Scally was set upon while walking home from a night out in Southport.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of wounding on the basis of "excessive self-defence" and also possessing an offensive weapon.
Scally was jailed for 16 months.
An obsessed man who sexually abused a schoolgirl threatened to throw acid in her face and stab her.
Michael Collins, 35, had only recently been released from prison when he started talking to the 15-year-old, from Newton-le-Willows, via Facebook.
They began what was described in court as a "consensual" sexual relationship, but Collins, of no fixed address, threatened to throw acid in her face and to stab her outside her school after becoming possessive.
Collins had sex with the girl while she was in her school uniform, after first meeting her at Hunts Cross station.
The abuse came to light in 2020, after she confided in a teaching mentor that she had slept with a man, who was being aggressive.
She said they drank vodka and took cocaine and she performed a sex act on him, but things became difficult as he was "off his head".
Collins admitted six offences involving sexual activity with a child, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
He was jailed for five years.
John Muldoon knocked out a dad who was simply enjoying a night out with his family.
The 21-year-old picked a fight with a group of people who had been out in St Helens after approaching them on North John Street.
He first punched Martin Battle, before turning on Mr Battle's dad, Andrew Tomkinson, in the early hours of August 6 last year.
Muldoon knocked out Mr Tomkinson and when two women refused to let him help, he punched one and assaulted the other.
Mr Battle then tried to restrain Muldoon, but in the struggle his thumb was fractured, and he now struggles with everyday tasks.
Muldoon, of Clock Face, St Helens, who has six previous convictions for seven offences including affray, admitted assault causing grievous bodily harm, assault causing actual bodily harm and two counts of common assault.
He was jailed for 12 months.
Paul McManaman bombarded his ex-partner with hundreds of unwanted messages and chillingly told her "if I can't have you no-one else will".
The 52-year-old, and his ex partner, who the ECHO has chosen not to name, separated due to his "excessive drinking", jealousy and "anger issues".
On one occasion, McManaman, of Hale Court, Widnes, sent her videos and messages saying he was "torching" her possessions.
After the relationship ended in July 2019, McManaman "made her life a misery" and threatened to sabotage her job and her family ties and to kill himself.
He sent messages saying "if I can't have you, no-one else will" and "if I find out you're with someone I will do you both in".
At one point he went to her home and cut the electricity to her video doorbell and smashed it while wielding a knife.
McManaman admitted two counts of stalking, having a bladed article, malicious communications and two breaches of a non-molestation order.
He was jailed for two years and eight months.
Cheshire Police are yet to release a mugshot of McManaman.
EncroChat users Jordan Alvis, Christopher Dentith and Jordan Quinn were locked up for dealing heroin and other drugs.
The group were all identified in Operation Venetic, the name given to investigations targeting users of EncroChat since the secret phone network was hacked by French authorities in April 2020.
lvis was jailed for nine years after he admitted conspiring to supply heroin and ketamine and to conceal criminal property.
The 35-year-old, of Trent Close in West Derby, used the EncroChat profile "LaughingStorm" to manage his illicit operation.
Dentith acted under the handle 'KindTailor'.
The 29-year-old, of College View in Huyton, was jailed for 17 years and three months after he admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and heroin, and possessing criminal property.
Quinn, 31, of Valiant Close in West Derby, was jailed for 14 years and three months after admitting conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin and ketamine and possessing criminal property.
He was connected to the profile "WiredFork" after revealing personal details in messages sent through EncroChat.
Alexander Seddon ditched a sawn off shotgun in a neighbour's wheelie bin in Anfield.
The thug tried to get rid of the double barrelled weapon after stashing it for three days for "criminal associates" he owed a drug debt to.
Prosecutors said the weapon was stolen in a raid at a firearms shop in 2019, with three of the guns subsequently found in Liverpool.
A man was putting rubbish in his bin on August 30 last year when he spotted the gun, which was found to have Seddon's DNA on the barrel.
Seddon, now of Drake Street, Widnes, admitted possessing a prohibited firearm and possessing a firearm while prohibited from doing so.
Seddon was jailed for five years and three months.
Two police officers were jailed for covering up their colleague's assault on a man.
PCs Laura Grant and Lauren Buchanan-Lloyd turned off their body-worn cameras as PC Darren McIntyre repeatedly punched Mark Bamber.
McIntyre also threatened to put Mr Bamber in a cell, which is what happened after Grant, Buchanan-Lloyd and PC Garrie Burke falsified statements to cover up his attack in the early hours of June 19, 2019.
Mr Bamber was left with blood pouring from a cut to his cheek after the officers arrived in Ainsdale for a welfare check on the victim's partner.
He was arrested for assaulting an emergency worker and spent nine hours in a cell and eight days under police investigation until the case was dropped.
Burke, 44, of Holmefield Grove, Maghull; Grant, 36, of Somerville Grove, Waterloo; and Buchanan-Lloyd, 26, of Kings Close, Higher Bebington; were all found guilty of perverting the course of justice after a trial.
Burke and Grant were both jailed for 15 months.
Judge David Aubrey, QC, accepted Buchanan-Lloyd, who had been with the force for only five weeks, was following the actions of Grant, her tutor.
She was handed a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.
McIntyre, 47, of Derwent Avenue, Southport, who was found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice, will be sentenced on July 16 after the court heard he had been hospitalised.
Anthony Kamara poured boiling water over the face of a sleeping murder suspect in jail because he didn't like the man's attitude to his alleged crime.
The 33-year-old was a leading member of an EncroChat drug gang who tried to hide their Merseyside roots by using the gang nickname "Manc Joey".
Kamara, of Ritson Street, Toxteth, admitted conspiring to supply heroin and cocaine with the county lines crew and was jailed for six years in February.
The boiling water attack happened when Kamara was on remand at Exeter prison in January, on the night his 35-year-old man moved into his cell.
The two men watched a report of the murder suspect's first court appearance on the local news on TV together and spoke about the alleged offence.
Kamara waited for him to fall asleep before he boiled a kettle and poured it over his head and chest, causing serious burns to 15% of his body.
He ripped the TV off the wall, battered him over the head with it, then smashed him repeatedly in the face with a makeshift cosh of a can of tuna in a sock.
Kamara admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent and was jailed for 10 and a half years, consecutive to his existing jail term, with an extended three years on licence.
Convicted sex offender Kirk Eden deliberately rode a bike into a Royal Navy officer after a row over his caravan.
Wirral mum-of-one Hayley Shakeshaft returned home from a tour to Syria only to become locked in a dispute with Eden.
He was staying in a caravan on the grounds of Barnston Towers Close in Heswall, where Miss Shakeshaft lives with her daughter.
There was a "longstanding issue" about whether 47-year-old Eden had a right to be living there.
He decided to crash his bike into Miss Shakeshaft, knocking the 36-year-old to the ground, then rode off "smirking" at his victim.
Miss Shakeshaft put out her hand to break her fall, but suffered a fractured wrist and bruising to her shoulder, hip and thigh.
Eden, now of Rocklee Gardens, Little Neston, denied inflicting grievous bodily harm, only to admit the charge a week before a trial.
He was jailed for two years and three months.
Jamie O'Connor set up a cocaine "shop" in his home after losing his job because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Police discovered more than 750g of cocaine and £6,140 in cash when they raided the dad-of-four's address.
Police experts said the drugs could have raked in up to £75,000 when sold in individual deals on the streets.
O'Connor confessed to police that he had flogged a kilo of cocaine every two weeks since being made redundant last June.
But the 30-year-old wasn't charged by the Crown Prosecution Service over the estimated 20 kilos he claimed to have sold.
Instead he admitted possessing the 750g with intent to supply at his home in Parkhill Road, Birkenhead on April 12 this year, plus possessing cannabis, and possessing criminal property.
O'Connor, now of Houghton Road, Woodchurch, was jailed for four and a half years.
Reiss Fletcher threatened to stab a man who met up with him to sell some clothes he had listed on Facebook Marketplace.
The 20-year-old, of Bridge Street, Birkenhead, had arranged to meet the victim in Chester after agreeing to purchase items of clothing on January 18 this year.
On Saturday, January 23, a similar arrangement was made again for a pair of jeans, shoes and a belt, with the exchange taking place at Victoria Road, Chester.
Cheshire Police said the "frightening incident" took place in front of the victim's 12-year-old son, who was in the car at the time.
Once the victim unwrapped a pair of shoes, Fletcher demanded all the goods in the car and threatened to stab the victim if he didn't hand the clothes over.
But when the victim told Fletcher to leave he fled and police found him in a nearby flat, with clothing he had previously stolen and a knife.
Fletcher admitted robbery and threatening a person with a bladed article.
He was jailed for five years.
Michael Farrer left a trail of clues behind after drilling his way into a safe and stealing cash at Pound Bakery.
The 35-year-old slipped into the budget bakery via the roof on Church Street in Runcorn some time after 5pm on Saturday, February 1 last year.
Once inside, Farrer pulled a safe into the middle of the room and drilled a large hole into it, before swiping £1,300 in cash and a safe worth £1,100.
He also grabbed some labels and a bag of till rolls, which he used to cover the smoke alarm.
Staff discovered the break-in the following morning and reported it to the police, who found Farrer's DNA on the labels and the bag used on the alarm.
Farrer, of South Terrace, Bury, admitted burglary and was jailed for 21 months.
A drug dealer was stabbed in the neck leaving a trail of blood which led police to a crack den.
Francis Shannon, 36, from Parkfield Road, Aigburth, had travelled to Blackpool to sell drugs from another dealer's flat.
Emergency services raced to Iddon Court in the seaside resort on May 19, 2019 after reports of a violent attack.
When they arrived, officers found Shannon in the street with a serious stab wound to his neck, which left him fighting for his life.
Officers followed a trail of blood to Martin Standrell's flat where they found the 34-year-old and Jayson Kaul, 41, with crack cocaine and MDMA.
The three men had to wait years to learn their fate after both Strandell and Kaul were initially suspected of attempting to murder their co-defendant, before being cleared of any wrongdoing in relation to the stabbing.
Evidence found at the scene showed drugs had been posted out directly to users through Royal Mail with customers able to pay by bank transfer.
Shannon, who suffered life-changing injuries and now has limited mobility and PTSD, admitted conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
He was jailed for two years and eight months. No mugshot of Shannon was provided by police.
Standrell, of Avondale Road North, Southport, admitted being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.
He was jailed for four and a half years.
A "top level controller" of a £27m drug gang was caught as he tried to flee with his girlfriend in a BMW to Spain.
Jordan Talbot was exposed as EncroChat boss "LittleNev" - a leader of a plot involving "at least" 500kg of Class A drugs.
The 29-year-old planned to move abroad as soon as his licence period for a past sentence for trafficking cocaine expired.
Ahead of his big trip Talbot went on a two-week spending spree, buying himself more than £40,000 of Rolex watches.
But detectives swooped on the cocaine, heroin and cannabis dealer as he tried to cross the channel at Folkestone in Kent, on July 20, 2020.
A judge said it was the biggest EncroChat drug case so far in Liverpool and an "extremely grave offence" as he jailed Talbot for 21 years and nine months.
Talbot, of Elson Road, Formby, was locked up alongside James Ward, 32, of no fixed address but from Kirkby, and Jamie Carlton, 40, of Church Road, Waterloo.
Ward went by the name "StableToast", Carlton used the handle "StaleSloth", and another Merseyside man - who is still at large - was called "DampHedge".
EncroChat messages showed 10 weeks of multi kilo trading between April 1 and June 13, 2020 but notes on Talbot and DampHedge's EncroChat devices showed the "full scale" of the scheme, dating back to January 2019.
Talbot, Carlton and Ward all admitted conspiring to supply Class A drugs and possessing criminal property.
Talbot and Ward also admitted conspiring to supply Class B drugs.
Ward was involved in transporting about 48kg of Class A drugs, from March 31, 2020 for about two and a half months.
He was jailed for 15 years and nine months.
Carlton had been involved in transporting 20kg of Class A drugs from May 1, 2020 for five or six weeks. He was jailed for 12 years.
Brandon Broome subjected a woman to a violent sexual assault when he spat in her face and groped her.
The 20-year-old, of Avondale Drive, Widnes, sobbed as his victim appeared in person to read a statement on the trauma she endured.
When she said she was going to the police after his attack, he threatened her and kept her detained for around four hours at a property in Widnes.
After saying he would let her go in exchange for a hug, "the animal" leaned in and spat in her face - but the victim was able to escape.
Broome, who admitted criminal damage, was convicted after a trial of sexual assault. His past convictions include assaults and harassment.
He was locked up for three years, but Cheshire Police have not released Broome's mugshot.
Shakur Valentino took a teenage woman's knickers as a "trophy" after trying to rape her.
He put his hand over the 18-year-old victim's mouth "to silence her protests" as she screamed for help, only for a friend to intervene.
After he was arrested, he was released by police under investigation and just weeks later raped a gran near London's Piccadilly Circus.
Valentino, 23, from St Helens, was previously jailed for 12 years, with an extended five years on licence, for raping that woman, who was in her 60s, in February 2019.
He was hit with a further five and a half years in jail, with an extended two years, for the attempted rape of his first victim in December 2018, which he admitted ahead of a trial.
Judge Louise Brandon said "a disturbing feature" of both cases was he "took trophies in the form of items as a reminder of your offending".
After kidnapping and raping the gran in an alleyway he took her leggings and after trying to rape the teenager in St Helens he kept her underwear.
Leslie Ferguson took advantage of a man being in hospital to steal his TV so he could buy more drugs.
The heroin and crack cocaine addict missed two previous court appearances because he was incapacitated by drugs.
The 41-year-old later claimed he had failed to attend one sentencing hearing because "there was a contract on his life".
Ferguson, of Argyle Street South, Tranmere, admitted theft in relation to an incident at supported accommodation in Birkenhead.
The victim was in hospital after suffering a seizure but Ferguson entered his room and stole his TV then flogged it for cash.
Ferguson, whose record includes previous thefts, was jailed for 28 weeks.
Barry Warner sent vile sexual messages to a 13-year-old girl and then accused her of lying when she reported him.
The 51-year-old started chatting to the girl but when it became clear the messages were becoming inappropriate, she drew him in just enough to ensure he incriminated herself.
Warner, of Bedford Road, Birkdale, then panicked - first accusing the girl of lying, then saying it was just a bit of fun, and pleading with her to delete the messages.
The girl showed the messages to her mum, who reported Warner to police.
At first Warner tried to deny everything to officers, claiming it was "bulls***" and he thought he was chatting to the girl's mum.
He admitted engaging in sexual communication with a child and was jailed for 12 months.
Stuart Whittaker burst into a former friend's home and attacked him with an axe in front of his family.
He stormed Anthony Wilson's home, in Turret Road, Wallasey, while armed with an axe and a lump hammer, at around 11.30pm, on June 27, 2018.
Whittaker wounded the dad, in front of his partner Stacy Wilson and their terrified children, after barging past Ms Wilson's terrified 12-year-old daughter.
Police were called and PC Thomas Birkett entered the home, yelled "it's the police" and "put that down" as Whittaker hid, then the officer fired a Taser at the thug, but missed.
Whittaker was originally accused of attempting to murder PC Birkett by swinging the axe at him and chasing him down a street shouting "I will f***ing kill you".
At a trial in 2019 he was cleared of attempted murder, but convicted of attempting to wound PC Birkett with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and wounding Mr Wilson with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
As a result Whittaker, then 34, of Beech Grove, Ellesmere Port, was sentenced to 17 years in prison, with an extended five years on licence.
But those convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal after it emerged a jury bailiff interfered with the jury's deliberations at Liverpool Crown Court.
Following a retrial in Manchester in May, Whittaker - who has a history of violence and carrying weapons - was cleared of both of those charges.
That meant he fell to be sentenced for the lesser charge of the wounding of Mr Wilson, which he had admitted back in 2019.
Whittaker, now 37, who had been in custody since June 2018, was jailed for four years, meaning he was released due to time served.
Kieran Murphy yelled "get the gun and run them over" when police tried to arrest him for a burglary at a JD Sports store.
The thug was once labelled "a disgrace to his family" by Liverpool's top judge after a dangerous 120mph police chase.
Now aged just 24, Murphy, aka Ryan Knox, of Parton Street, Kensington, already has 17 previous convictions for 39 offences.
He was sentenced over a gang raid with a power saw at the sports-fashion shop in Wigan, at around 4am, on May 8 this year.
Police officers at nearby Wigan Police Station heard a loud noise "like a saw cutting through metal" at Robin Retail Park next door.
They caught the gang bundling clothes into a black Audi estate and Murphy threatened them when he was detained at the scene.
Murphy, who admitted burglary and breach of bail, also admitted taking a vehicle without consent from a home in Prescot on January 19.
He was jailed for nearly 35 months.
BT engineer Daniel Wilson had a double life as drug dealing EncroChat user 'NormalAir' who bragged about selling three to five kilos of cocaine a week.
While volunteering to deliver medication and food for the elderly and vulnerable in lockdown, he was supplying cocaine, heroin and cannabis across the UK.
Police identified Wilson as the user of the handle after he sent a picture of himself in his sunny garden while drinking beer alongside the caption "Cheers bro".
Officers raided his home on March 16 this year, when they found £1,753 in cash in his bedroom, a set of scales and two bags of cocaine weighing 43g in total.
Police also discovered just under one kilo of cannabis, worth up to £14,865, stashed under the seat of his Range Rover, and that he had laundered £260,000.
Wilson, of Silverbeech Road, Poulton, Wirral, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis and to convert criminal property.
He also admitted possessing cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply and possessing criminal property, relating to the raid at his home.
Wilson was jailed for seven years and eight months.
David Croxton left an ex-girlfriend with life changing injuries after the speeding biker crashed into a turning car.
He claimed he was speeding away from an off-duty police officer when he collided into the Peugeot, throwing his girlfriend from the motorbike.
Tanya Buckley had to have her foot amputated and is "no longer the person she was", but has remained with Croxton and since had his baby.
Croxton was taking Ms Buckley to his flat to talk about their relationship, after she told him it was over and that she was now seeing another man.
The 34-year-old was "impatient" to have the discussion and sped on Birchfield Road, Widnes, overtaking a long line of stationary traffic before crashing.
Croxton denied causing serious injury by dangerous driving, blaming the Peugeot driver, but was found guilty after a trial over the April 3, 2019 incident.
He has a previous conviction for dangerous driving from 2004, in which he fractured his pelvis and his collarbone.
Croxton, of Albert Road, Widnes, was jailed for two years.
Ahmed Yehia tried to run from police after he was spotted throwing packets of crack cocaine and heroin out of a Mercedes.
The 20-year-old, of Heydean Road in Allerton, was a passenger in a red Mercedes spotted traveling at Newby Bridge in Cumbria.
Officers went to stop the car and as it pulled into Newby Bridge Service Station, three packages were thrown out of the passenger side window.
As the Mercedes stopped the passenger - later identified as Yehia - got out of the rear seat of the car and fled, but was soon caught by officers.
He admitted possessing crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply and was jailed for three years and nine months.
Paul Roberts sent sick WhatsApp messages to a boy and suggested he play a sexual "prank" on his mum.
The convicted sex offender groomed the child with presents and invited him to his flat to play XBox.
While there he cuddled and kissed the boy, who also got undressed after a "water fight" involving another child.
But his twisted behaviour and the detail of the supposed prank - too obscene to publish - came to light after Robert's online persona "Saint" was exposed.
Roberts was hit with a 10-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) in October 2011 for possessing and distributing indecent images of children.
The 37-year-old, of Boardsman Lane, St Helens, admitted breaching the SOPO three times and breaching a past suspended sentence by sending the WhatsApp messages, deleting his browsing history and meeting up with the child.
Lapato Abrasive He was jailed for three years and four months.