A convicted sex offender will serve more prison time after admitting sexually assaulting a child under 13 and sexual communication with a…
Paul Roberts, 39, from St Helens, is currently serving a three-year prison sentence for breaching his Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO), by communicating with a child under 16 without supervision and allowing the child to visit his address without supervision or consent from parents.NCA officers established that in December 2020, Roberts had additionally breached the […]
A Wirral man has today, Friday 28th October, been jailed for 15 years and 10 months for the murder of his wife
Police were called to a flat in Vittoria Court, on Vittoria Close, Birkenhead, at around 7.15pm on Thursday 12 May this year to a report of concern for the welfare of 62 year-old Karen Wheeler. Paramedics attended but Mrs Wheeler was sadly pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death was given as blunt […]
A serving police officer has been charged with rape
James Andrew Darnton, 51, is charged in connection with a 2009 incident involving a woman.He works as a temporary detective inspector in Greater Manchester Police’s public protection governance unit.In October 2021, a report on the incident was received.Darnton is scheduled to appear in Liverpool Crown Court on July 10, 2023.He was suspended, and professional proceedings […]
A Sudanese pervert who groped a 10-year-old girl as she chose a packet of crisps in a newsagents was knocked unconscious after a member of her family identified him
Abdul Gani, 32, of Langsdale Street, Everton, groped the girl while she was with her nine-year-old cousin in Jim’s News on Fountains Road, Kirkdale.The girls were standing there selecting crisp packets when the pervert walked by and groped her bottom.On Monday, August 1, prosecutor Olivia Beesley told Liverpool Crown Court how Gani turned around to […]
A Sudanese pervert who groped a 10-year-old girl as she chose a packet of crisps in a newsagents was knocked unconscious after a member o…
Abdul Gani, 32, of Langsdale Street, Everton, groped the girl while she was with her nine-year-old cousin in Jim’s News on Fountains Road, Kirkdale.The girls were standing there selecting crisp packets when the pervert walked by and groped her bottom.On Monday, August 1, prosecutor Olivia Beesley told Liverpool Crown Court how Gani turned around to […]
A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced for the November murder of 12-year-old Ava White in Liverpool’s city centre
Ava died on Thursday, November 25, 2021, after being stabbed in the neck during an altercation on School Lane in Liverpool city centre, just moments after the Christmas lights were turned on.Ava was with friends near the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool city centre around 20:40 when they were approached by a group of boys. […]
A drug dealer in Warrington who attempted to discard drugs onto a roof while being chased by officers has been jailed
Ellis Kilbride attempted to flee after a warrant was served at a residence on Farrell Street.
A man who made sexual remarks to two young girls in a shop and then attempted to kidnap them has been sentenced to prison
Leslie Foster approached the children, all of whom were under the age of 13, on September 25, 2021, in Home Bargains in Liverpool’s St Johns Shopping Centre.The 71-year-old man, who had no fixed address, was arrested in the shopping centre after store employees alerted police.At Liverpool Crown Court, he was sentenced to nine years and […]
A gang enforcer has been convicted of carrying out a horrifying acid attack on a victim and plotting to blind other victims
Jonathan Gordon, 34, was charged with £6,000 for carrying out an acid attack and £10,000 for blinding someone.
A drug dealer was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison today, Friday, June 10, after being identified through messages he exchanged …
Martin Peter Grant, 33, of Davidson Road in Old Swan, was sentenced today at Liverpool Crown Court to 14 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs (heroin and cocaine) and conspiracy to supply Class B drugs (cannabis and ketamine). He will be joining his younger […]
A drug dealer was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison today, Friday, June 10, after being identified through messages he exchanged on the Encrochat encrypted mobile service
Martin Peter Grant, 33, of Davidson Road in Old Swan, was sentenced today at Liverpool Crown Court to 14 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs (heroin and cocaine) and conspiracy to supply Class B drugs (cannabis and ketamine).
A drug dealer who planned the supply of £800,000 worth of cocaine has been jailed for nine years and two months
John Germaine, 33, of Holt Drive, Burscough, Lancashire, was arrested on 27 September last year on Bolton Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan, by officers from the specialist Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). On the back seat of his white Ford Kuga was £13,000 in cash and a one kilo bar of cocaine with a purity of […]
A woman who sexually assaulted and raped a child with two other men has been given a life sentence for sexual offences against children today following an extensive joint investigation by Merseyside Police and St Helens Social Care
During a previous court case in June 2021 a phone of a convicted paedophile showed indecent images and videos of children sent by a mobile number that was linked to Vicki Bevan. Further messages and images alleged that Vicki was sexually abusing children with two other men. The evidence led to a search being […]
A woman who sexually assaulted and raped a child with two other men has been given a life sentence for sexual offences against children t…
During a previous court case in June 2021 a phone of a convicted paedophile showed indecent images and videos of children sent by a mobile number that was linked to Vicki Bevan. Further messages and images alleged that Vicki was sexually abusing children with two other men. The evidence led to a search being […]
A teenager stabbed a 12-year-old girl to death after she objected to being filmed, a court has heard
Ava White died from her injuries after she was stabbed in Liverpool city centre while out with friends on 25 November 2021. A 14-year-old boy, who denies murder, is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court, where he appeared by videolink. Charlotte Newell QC said Ava and the boy had met in a “chance encounter” […]
A sexual predator who subjected a teenage girl to an “abhorrent” rape at Liverpool Lime Street railway station in February has been jailed for 12 years and three months following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation
William John Ormandy, 31, and of Derby Court, Church Road, Merseyside, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court via video link on Friday 18 March where he pleaded guilty to rape. This afternoon, a judge sentenced him to 12 years and three months imprisonment. He was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life. On […]
A sexual predator who subjected a teenage girl to an “abhorrent” rape at Liverpool Lime Street railway station in February has been jaile…
William John Ormandy, 31, and of Derby Court, Church Road, Merseyside, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court via video link on Friday 18 March where he pleaded guilty to rape. This afternoon, a judge sentenced him to 12 years and three months imprisonment. He was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life. On […]
A train driver who was using WhatsApp less than thirty seconds before he crashed his train at nearly three times the speed limit has been sentenced, following a British Transport Police investigation
The judge at Liverpool Crown Court sentenced Philip Hollis to a 12 month prison sentence, suspended for two years. Hollis, 56, of Spellow Lane, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of passengers at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on 8 On Saturday 13 March 2021, Hollis was driving a Merseyrail Service from Liverpool Central to Kirkby, […]
