Jailed in November: Faces of 66 criminals jailed for crimes linked to Merseyside

Date01 December 2020
Published date01 December 2020
Judges dealt with two separate gangland killers, an evil child rapist who "wanted attention", and a personal trainer who keeps battering women.

Underworld crooks caught with guns and huge drug stashes, vile bullies behind sex attacks, and a man who stabbed a vulnerable friend 27 times were all sentenced.

Courts heard about a biker who hacked at another man's head with a meat cleaver and a coked-up drink driver who took a life.

One judge had to listen to the case of a paedophile who offered a dad £200 to rape his nine-year-old daughter.

And a Merseyside-based drug gang who tried to convince police they were actually from Manchester were also locked up.

Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past month.

Luke Trout

Luke Trout ambushed a have-a-go hero after he stopped him stealing a charity box.

Off duty security guard Stephen Farrell saw Trout swearing at staff in a Tesco Express at around 8.30am.

The "public-spirited" victim helped escort Trout outside, but the 32-year-old crook decided to get "revenge".

CCTV footage showed him run up to Mr Farrell and punch him in the face, then steal his mobile phone and flee.

The shoplifter was tracked by police and caught after the incident in Lord Street, Liverpool, on August 2 this year.

Mr Farrell was knocked down to the pavement, injured his leg, and only got his phone back minus the SIM card.

Trout, of Fraser Street, Liverpool city centre, initially claimed he was the victim, denied robbery and was set to stand trial.

But the serial crook and drug addict pleaded guilty to theft and common assault, which was accepted by the Crown.

Trout was jailed for 12 months.

Jake Duffy, Jake Robinson and William Duggan

Jake Duffy, Jake Robinson and William Duggan brawled outside Anfield after Liverpool lifted the Premier League trophy.

Mobile phone footage showed two groups clashing on Townson Street, opposite the Kop stand, and a man stabbing someone with a knife.

Following an appeal in the ECHO, three men from Birkenhead -Duffy, Robinson and Duggan -were arrested over the July 22 incident.

Prosecutors said none of Duffy, Robinson or Duggan were involved in the stabbing, when some Liverpool fans began fighting at around 11.25pm.

But CCTV footage showed 20-year-old Duffy hurled seven bottles and threw a punch; Robinson, 20, kicked a man on the ground and chucked a bottle; and Duggan, 21, hit someone with a bottle and hurled two missiles.

Duffy, of Arley Close; Robinson, of Glenfield Close, and Duggan, of Broadfield Avenue; all in Beechwood, all admitted violent disorder.

Duffy and Robinson didn't have any previous convictions, but Duggan was previously fined for criminal damage and two offences of assault causing actual bodily harm in Ibiza in 2018.

The three men were jailed for 12 months each and hit with seven-year football banning orders.

David Hunter

Murderer David Hunter's cover story fell apart after judges dismissed his lies as "unbelievable and untrue".

The 41-year-old, from Liverpool, was charged over the fatal shooting of Michael Barr at a pub in Dublin.

Mr Barr, a dissident Republican, was shot seven times in an attack linked to a notorious feud between the rival Hutch and Kinahan gangs.

The 35-year-old was having a night off from his bar manager job to attend a fundraiser for the wives of IRA prisoners when he was shot.

Hunter always denied involvement in the Sunset House hit, which saw Mr Barr killed in a hail bullets one night in April 2016.

He insisted that he was not one of the two men who donned Freddy Krueger masks and boiler suits as they entered the pub.

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The gunmen fled in a vehicle that was dumped and set alight, but bungled their efforts to destroy evidence and left crucial clues behind.

Emergency services reached the car before flames had fully taken hold and officers recovered four guns -including the murder weapon.

Detectives also retrieved ski masks, rubber masks, a mobile phone and boiler suits. Hunter's DNA was found on two of the masks.

His explanation for this evidence, and suggestion he had travelled from Ireland simply to watch a UB40 gig, didn't convince judges.

The Special Criminal Court case in Dublin, overseen by three judges, found this "unbelievable and untrue" and he was jailed for life.

Andrew Oldfield

Andrew Oldfield's sexual abuse of a teenage girl was revealed when her mum discovered sick WhatsApp messages.

The teacher, who lived in Widnes, worked at Horn's Mill Primary School in Helsby, near Frodsham, in Cheshire.

Unbeknown to colleagues and his family, he had manipulated and molested a child, who wasn't a pupil at the school.

The 34-year-old -a father-of-two -had sent the girl texts referring to his twisted abuse and his plans to do it again.

The victim's mother found a message on her daughter's phone lock screen from Oldfield, urging her to delete his messages.

The woman confronted Oldfield, now of Manchester Road, Rochdale, who lied to try and fool her, before she read the texts.

Oldfield eventually confessed to performing sex acts on the child, getting her to do the same to him, and taking her virginity.

The girl said she had what she described as consensual sexual intercourse with Oldfield on approximately seven occasions.

Oldfield admitted four counts of sexual activity with a child and was jailed for four years.

He must sign on the Sex Offenders Register and comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for life.

Jack Moore

Drug dealer Jack Moore suffered serious injuries when he tried to escape capture by police.

Officers stopped a Ford van containing Moore and another man near Dover Marina in Kent.

Moore, 30, of Fincham Road in Huyton, got out and fled but fell from a wall and suffered "serious injuries" on landing.

Police discovered three bricks of heroin weighing nearly two kilos and more than 50 wraps of cocaine with a street value of around £100,000.

Around £3,000 in cash, phones, scales and other drug dealing equipment was also seized during the search in March of this year.

Moore and his accomplice both admitted two counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply.

He was jailed for five years and three months.

David Laponder

A biker hacked another chapter member with a meat cleaver before escaping on a Harley Davidson after a row over "club rules".

David Laponder, 35, launched an "extremely violent attack" on Daniel Gibbons in Old Liverpool Road, Warrington, on March 21 this year.

After attacking his rival, the thug made off from the scene on the high-powered bike, leaving his victim with a fractured skull.

Laponder -a member of the Tameside chapter of the Sons of Hell biker club -swung the blade at Mr Gibbons -from the Warrington chapter -who tried to grab it and appeared to "lose his balance on the kerb and fell backwards".

The knifeman then "stood over the victim and repeatedly struck him with the meat cleaver" up to eight times.

Laponder, of The Grove, Cale Green, Stockport, was arrested a few days later and clothes in his washing machine bore his victim's DNA.

While at Runcorn custody suite, the suspect pulled down his mask and coughed at a custody sergeant on duty.

Laponder admitted wounding with intent, possessing an offensive weapon and assaulting an emergency worker.

He was jailed for nine years and three months, with an extended two years on licence.

Christopher Rodgers

Christopher Rodgers offered to pay another man £200 if he could rape his nine-year-old daughter.

The paedophile, 38, said he was willing to drive half the way down to London to meet and molest a little girl.

The married man said he would need to see a photo of the child first, just in case he "didn't find her attractive".

But the whole time he was talking to an undercover police officer, whose supposed daughter didn't in fact exist.

And when his home was searched, officers discovered his sickening stash of child rape videos and animal porn.

Rodgers, of Taunton Road, Huyton, was arrested on September 19, when police also discovered he had shared indecent images.

He pleaded guilty to intentionally encouraging the commission of an offence of rape of a child under 13; three counts of distributing, three counts of downloading, and two counts of possessing indecent images of children; plus possessing extreme porn.

He was jailed for four and a half years and told to sign on the Sex Offenders Register and comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.

Shaun Carroll

Former amateur boxer Shaun Carroll punched a man after "football banter", leaving the dad with life-changing brain injuries.

He attacked Stephen Smith, 61, outside a Warrington pub after they argued following a match between Manchester United and Watford.

Mr Smith was knocked out by a single punch -when he fell and hit his head on the ground -on the evening of December 22 last year.

The victim, who now has trouble with controlling his limbs and with the fine motor skills in his hands and fingers, cannot work.

He has been left unable to do his shirt buttons or tie his shoelaces even a year after the attack by Carroll, outside the Pack Horse Inn.

Carroll, 34, who has five previous convictions for five offences, including past assaults, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm.

The dad-of-three, of Rothay Street, Leigh, was jailed for 15 months.

Reece Entwistle

Coked-up drink driver Reece Entwistle killed his "best friend of 20 years" after smashing into a roundabout at more than 100mph.

Entwistle was travelling back from a party in Liverpool on a Saturday night when he careered into the road island in Warrington.

The massive collision caused "catastrophic and unsurvivable" injuries for front seat passenger Mark Taylor, 30, who died in hospital.

Entwistle, 29, was at the time a wanted man after he had failed to turn up to court on two occasions for previous drink driving.

He had been partying in Merseyside where he'd had a fall out with his second cousin, leaving him...

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