Jailed in Liverpool: Leering yob, murdering wife and cocaine smuggler
| Published date | 12 July 2021 |
| Date | 12 July 2021 |
| Publication title | Liverpool Echo: Web Edition Articles (England) |
Courts heard about a £.25m burglary gang and an OCG who flooded Wirral with cocaine.
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Another judge had to sentence a yob who knocked out a dad leaving him with facial fractures simply because the father told him and his friends to stop cat calling his two children.
Judges dealt with heinous sex offenders including a man who punched and kicked a woman when she refused to perform a sex act on him and paedophiles who fantasised about committing horrific abuse.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past week.
Mohammad Keneshlou
Mohammad Keneshlou punched and kicked a woman when she refused to perform a sex act on him.
The 28-year-old told his female friend he was "sad" and tried to hug and kiss her after an evening drinking.
The woman told him to stop, said she was married and even rang her husband to make clear she wasn't interested.
Keneshlou, of Rocky Lane, Anfield, exposed himself and then pushed the woman's head towards him.
She only escaped after biting him on the hand and screaming to alert neighbours one evening in 2019.
He admitted sexual assault and assault causing actual bodily harm, after prosecutors dropped a charge of attempted rape.
Keneshlou, who had no previous convictions, was jailed for two years and eight months.
Ricardo Hughes, David Hunter, Christopher Dooley and Stephen Piert
An EncroChat drug gang moved nearly £500,000 of amphetamine branded with pictures of The Beano character Billy Whizz.
The organised crime group based in St Helens traded almost 50kg of amphetamine, but also flogged cocaine across the UK.
Amphetamine is commonly nicknamed speed, whizz and Billy Whizz -the latter after the famous character in the children's comic.
North West Regional Organised Crime Unit NWROCU detectives launched an undercover surveillance operation in February 2020.
But it was EncroChat messages, recovered in April 2020, which gave officers the additional evidence to blow the lid on the network.
Ricardo Hughes, aka EncroChat user "NovaCoast", David Hunter, and Christopher Dooley, aka "OctoOx", were identified as key players in the plot.
They all supplied both Class A cocaine and Class B amphetamine, while Hunter also shifted Class B ketamine.
Hughes, 53, of Rock Lane, Widnes, was jailed for 10 and a half years after admitting conspiring to supply Class A and B drugs.
Hunter, 48, of Larch Close, Billinge, St Helens, was sentenced to nine years and seven months after also admitting Class A and B drug plots.
Dooley, 35, of no fixed address but from St Helens, was jailed for nine years after admitting conspiring to supply Class A and B drugs.
"Trusted courier" Stephen Piert, 27, of Harlow Close, St Helens, was jailed for two years and seven months after admitting a Class B plot.
Lee Ruby
Lee Ruby who terrorised a shop worker with a kitchen knife was caught thanks to his trail of discarded clothes.
The 42-year-old, of Petersgate, Murdishaw, Runcorn, was found guilty of robbery and having a bladed article in public.
Ruby burst into The Spar on Chester Road in Preston Brook in Runcorn, at around 3.15pm, on Tuesday, February 5, 2019.
The masked man terrified a member of staff stacking shelves, plus three customers including a man shopping with his baby.
Ruby forced the female shop assistant to hand over cash but as he ran off left clothes bearing his DNA on Sandy Lane.
The victim identified him by his "incredibly pale skin" and "drawn features", leading to his conviction by a jury after a trial.
Ruby, who had 19 previous convictions for 34 offences, including robberies, was jailed for seven years and four months.
Alan Bainbridge
Alan Bainbridge had images of a man having sex with a dog and shared a sick video of a little girl being raped.
Among his disgusting criminal content the 62-year-old kept 501 images of children being sexually abused.
The paedophile had also amassed 52 images of bestiality involving dogs at his then family home in Warrington.
Police found chats in which he was "discussing sexual abuse of children" after raiding his house on May 12, 2020.
Bainbridge, now of Doward Street, Widnes, admitted three counts of downloading, once count of possessing and one count of distributing indecent images of children, plus possessing extreme pornographic images.
He was jailed for 20 months.
Christopher Bullows drove a coach load of cocaine into the UK.
He had 243kg of the Class A drug hidden in a specially-made wastewater tank when the vehicle was stopped at Dover.
The 50-year-old claimed he had driven to Belgium so the air conditioning unit could...
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