These are the faces of 39 criminals locked up in March after high-profile cases covered by the ECHO.
They include thugs locked up for horrific beatings and drug dealers accused of running international smuggling rackets.
Among the faces of shame is also a Southport teen whose hoax emergency calls led to SWAT teams being scrambled and the FBI launching a mission to find him.
DECLAN KILBRIDE, THOMAS DEAN and RHYS ALLEN
Three Liverpool men were jailed over a gang raid that saw two children threatened with a sawn-off shotgun.
Declan Kilbride, Thomas Dean and Rhys Allen armed themselves with the gun and a knife and ransacked a Cheshire home in front of the terrified family that lived inside.
The thugs were locked up for aggravated burglary and possession of a firearm after a 100mph police chase led to the capture of two of the crooks.
Dean, 27 and of Sedgemore Road, Norris Green, and Allen, 23 and of Stanley Park Avenue South, Walton, both pleaded guilty to the charges while Kilbride, 23 and of Anfield Road, Anfield, was found guilty following a trial.
Kilbride was sentenced to 12 years in prison plus three years on extended licence, Allen was handed an eight-year sentence plus three years on licence and Dean was jailed for seven years and six months with three years on licence.
JOE CUNNAH, JOSHUA PARRY and WARRINGTON TEEN
Three teenagers were jailed for the horrific torture of a man they believed had “grassed” them up to police.
The thugs - including one from Warrington - imprisoned a 19-year-old and used a variety of weapons as they subjected him to the vile attack.
The victim’s ordeal only came to an end when he fled through a bathroom window after his captors fell asleep.
The incident took place in Chester, where the three men held their victim - considered a friend of theirs at the time - and subjected him to a cruel beating.
Police said the torture, which happened in October, took place over a “prolonged” period and involved “multiple weapons”.
Joe Cunnah, 19, of Norris Road in Chester, was handed a nine-year prison sentence after admitting charges of causing grievous bodily with intent and false imprisonment.
A 17-year-old boy from Warrington, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to the same charges and was sentenced to seven years in a young offenders’ institution.
Joshua Parry, 18 and of Cemlyn Close, Chester, was jailed for four years after admitting a charge of false imprisonment.
He pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily with intent and the judge ordered that charge to remain on file.
JAMES NEWHALL and GRAHAM RAWLING
Newhall and Rawling were part of a continental drugs trafficking gang busted when Greater Manchester Police seized the biggest consignment in the force’s history.
Their enterprise was busted when officers swooped on a lorry carrying a tractor - discovering £66.5m of heroin and cocaine inside.
Graham Rawling, 58, of Sussex Road, Southport pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and was found guilty of conspiracy to supply heroin, and was sentenced to 10 years.
James Newhall, 42, of Delph Common Road, Ormskirk pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin and was sentenced to six years and nine months.
STEPHEN DOYLE and DANIEL BULLEN
Doyle and Bullen viciously attacked a Good Samaritan for trying to defend a woman who one of them headbutted.
CCTV footage captures the Liverpool thugs launching themselves at victim Colin McLean who then flees for his life, but he is tracked down later in the night and had part of his ear bitten off.
Doyle and Bullen were jailed for eight years and two months and a year and eight months respectively for the savage beating in Torquay, Devon, which left Mr McLean, also from Liverpool, lying unconscious in the gutter.
He spent five days in intensive care in hospital, and suffered swelling and bleeding to the brain, a severely torn ear, broken ribs, perforated lung and a fractured eye socket.
Doyle, 29, of St Mary’s Park, Paignton, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and assault by battery on the woman he headbutted in the pizza shop.
Bullen, 22, of Mimosa Way, Paignton, admitted causing grievous bodily harm.
Both men come from Liverpool but now live in Devon.
ANTHONY DUCKWORTH
Everton fan Duckworth was caught with 23 wraps of the drug in a toilet block at Goodison Park.
Police spotted the cocaine-snorting 29-year-old going back and forth from his seat in the Lower Bullens Road stand.
An officer followed him into the men’s toilets during Everton’s 3-4 defeat to Stoke City on December 28, 2015.
Liverpool Crown Court heard he thought Duckworth was high on drugs and decided to stop and search him.
He recovered a Kinder Egg from Duckworth’s right jeans pocket, containing 23 wraps of cocaine, weighing 8.22g.
Graham Pickavance, prosecuting, said 232mg of cocaine, wrapped in a £20 note, was found in his other pocket.
He said the 23 wraps of 30% pure cocaine were valued between £246 and £822, while the single wrap was worth between £6 and £23.
Duckworth was arrested and taken to a police station, before officers searched his house in Leyburn Road, Wallasey.
They discovered a bag of white powder in his bedroom, which was found to contain 22.8g of the anaesthetic Benzocaine.
The court heard officers also retrieved a number of plastic bags and a set of scales from the dad-of-two’s address.
Duckworth told police he cut the cocaine and put it in wraps in the Kinder Egg for his own use.
He denied being a drug dealer and stood trial charged with possession of cocaine with intent to supply.
The trial collapsed and on the opening day of a second trial, he admitted the offence on the basis that he was going to share the wraps with friends, but was not dealing them at the football match.
He was jailed for 32 months.
DENNIS RICH
Dad-of-four Rich squirted a mystery chemical into a cabbie’s face with a syringe, leaving him with eye ulcers.
The 46-year-old pulled up alongside Paul Bruce in his car in Wallasey and aimed caustic liquid at him during a bitter feud.
He then asked his son Callum Rich to lie to police by claiming he was present when Mr Bruce had actually assaulted him.
Rich, of Silverbeech Road, Wallasey, told Liverpool Crown Court he feared Mr Bruce, 51, and squirted him with a bottle of car polish in self-defence.
A jury took just six minutes to convict him of assault causing actual bodily harm, but cleared him of racially aggravated assault.
He was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
JOHN PAUL BARROW
Obsessed thug Barrow threatened to “massacre” a pregnant nurse’s family and subjected her to a barrage of sinister threats in revenge for speaking to police.
He left a series of abusive voicemail messages within weeks of being slapped with a restraining order.
Barrow, from Mullion Road in Gillmoss, was jailed for 12 months at Liverpool Crown Court this week for threatening a witness, criminal damage, breaching a restraining order and breaching a suspended sentence.
The 36-year-old had received a 12 week suspended prison sentence after leaving the victim and mother of his two children, Danielle Crossland, “shaking with fear” - but breached a restraining order within weeks. The court heard the trouble started when he failed to accept the end of his relationship with then pregnant Ms Crossland, leading him to leave a series of terrifying voicemails.
The judge sentenced him to nine months in prison for the new offences and activated the 12 week suspended sentence in full.
He also handed down a new seven year restraining order banning Barrow from contacting Ms Crossland.
JAMES MANNING
Drugs boss Manning was locked up for 15 years after being caught following a bid to flee to Spain and then lie low in Dubai.
The 40-year-old was in charge of a 2kg consignment of cocaine which was intercepted by police on its way to Glasgow.
The dad-of-four left the UK, but when he arrived back in the country he was convicted of conspiring to supply the cocaine which had a street value of £312,000.
Judge Elizabeth Nicholls told gym boss Manning, of Damwood Road in Speke: “You moved within the highest ranks of those involved in the drugs trade and on an international level.
“You had substantial influence on others in the chain both upwards and downwards.”
She told him he’d been “immersed” in the drug trade and had provided secure mobile phones for gang members to communicate and “mobilise people to execute his orders.”
Judge Nicholls added: “You demonstrated in the trial that you are an unscrupulous, manipulative and a dangerous individual who is prepared to go to any length to achieve your goals and protect your interests.”
“I have no hesitation in placing you in a leading role. You were directing these drugs operations throughout.”
JACOB CASEY
Casey stole four cans of lager at knifepoint before dropping two as he fled the store - only to be caught after bragging about the robbery.
He threatened a shopkeeper who was working in the Aroma Mini-Mart, on Crown Street in Warrington, by brandishing a knife on January 30 at about 4.50pm.
After the threat was made the worker fled the store and tried to block 23-year-old Casey’s exit from the outside.
While inside the shop Casey, of Bridge Street in the town, took four cans of beer and then forced his way past the shop worker at the door - only to drop half of his haul while fleeing.
Later that day a member of the public reported to the police that “she had heard a man bragging about having done a robbery”.
Officers found Casey in the early hours of the next morning.
The yob was then hauled before the courts and handed more than three years behind bars.
A spokesman for Cheshire Police said: “A Warrington man has been jailed after carrying out a knife point robbery in a shop in the town.
“Jacob Casey pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to robbery and possession of a bladed article and has been jailed for a total of 38 months.”
GARY CURRAN
Dad-of-two Curran was fooled by paedophile hunters into thinking he was meeting a 14-year-old foster child for sex.
He sent pictures of his penis to a decoy posing as a girl called Alex after chatting on an online dating app.
Liverpool Crown Court heard ‘Alex’ said she was in care, but the 55-year-old arranged to meet her at a train station.
However, when he arrived he was confronted by a group of men and then claimed the reason he had fallen for the sting was that he had been drunk and lonely.
Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said self-proclaimed “paedophile hunter” Daniel Holding set up the profile on website Oasis.
He said the account, launched in January, included a photograph of a young girl, who had given her consent to Mr Holding.
On January 13 the profile, named Alex HJ116, received a message from a man called Gary, who said “hi” and sent kisses.
That user asked if she liked older men and when ‘Alex’ replied that she was only 14, he sent explicit sexual messages.
Mr Blasbery said: “In fact, they were of a very graphic sexual nature and included two images of the defendant’s penis.”
They swapped mobile phone numbers and Mr Holding managed to identify Curran’s Facebook account as a result.
They agreed to meet at Earlestown train station at around 12.10pm on January 20, where Mr Holding lay in wait.
Curran, of Kershaw Way, Newton-le-Willows, admitted attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
He was jailed for 12 months and told to sign on the Sex Offenders Register and to comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.
CAROL MESSON
Messon stuck her bottom in the faces of two fellow Orange Lodge walkers before punching them with a knuckle duster.
The 59-year-old drank a bottle of vodka during the annual Protestant parade celebrations in Southport on July 12 last year.
She then attacked Pauline Robbins and John Molyneux on a train home to Liverpool.
Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said Ms Robbins and Mr Molyneux boarded the train after a “day out” with the Orange Lodge.
He said Messon, of St James Drive, Bootle, got on the train at around 6.30pm and was “clearly under the influence of alcohol”.
Mr Blasbery said: “Around 20 to 25 minutes into the journey, her backside was described as going into Mr Molyneux’s face.
“He asked her to stop it. Ms Messon told him to ‘f*** off’. Again after a short time, her backside went into Ms Robbins’ face.
“She said to Ms Messon ‘excuse me, could you please move your arse from my face?’
“At this point Ms Messon turned to Ms Robbins and punched her to the top of her head.”
The court heard Mr Molyneux “leapt to the defence” of Ms Robbins and grabbed Messon by the arm, but she punched him in the mouth.
Messon admitted two counts of assault and one of possessing an offensive weapon and was jailed for six months.
NICHOLAS THOMPSON and KENNETH DEAN
Thompson and Dean were jailed for a total of 33 years after a dad’s ears were cut off in a gruesome gangland attack.
Karl Warrilow, 35, was tricked into a car, choked with a dog chain and then repeatedly kicked when he tried to escape.
After suffering a perforated bowel, the victim was dragged to a disused railway tunnel, where both of his ears were severed.
Thompson and Dean, both 34, were convicted of kidnap and wounding with intent after an eight-day trial.
Prosecutors said Thompson – then a prisoner in HMP Liverpool – paid Dean and another man to punish Warrilow.
He ordered the attack because his childhood friend “foolishly” spent £2,000 of his money, after agreeing to collect it for him.
Warrilow said Thompson later rang him from prison, while he was still recovering in hospital, to gloat: “How’s life with no ears?”
Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, jailed Thompson, of Edge Lane Drive, Old Swan, for 18 years and Dean, of Upper Warwick Street, Toxteth, for 15 years, each with an extended four years on licence.
RYAN KENNY, CHRISTOPHER INGLESBY and JOHN KENNY
Norris Green criminal Ryan Kenny was locked up for 14 years for heading up a massive drugs conspiracy which reached into towns in North Wales.
Swansea Crown Court heard that the “sophisticated” gang flooded the streets of Llanelli and Aberystwyth with a “staggering” amount of Class A and B drugs bought from a criminal network in Liverpool between January 2014 and June 2017.
Prosecutor Andrew Jones described the operation as a “widespread and far-reaching conspiracy” worth millions of pounds.
Kenny, 29 and of Norris Green, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine, MDMA and ketamine; Christopher Inglesby, 30 and of Byng Road, Clubmoor, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine and John Kenny, 35, of Landford Avenue, Walton, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.
Kenny was jailed for 14 years, Inglesby for 13 and Kenny four years and four months.
ANDREW CAMPBELL
Children’s care worker Campbell tried to rape a drunken young mum after she got into his car believing it was a taxi - and then callously dumped her in a deserted car park.
CCTV footage showed the 48-year-old getting into the back of his vehicle with the victim.
After he drove off six minutes later she was left lying in the private car park, where she lay for an hour before passers-by heard her cries.
A jury cleared Campbell, a married man, of raping the 22-year-old but convicted him of attempting to rape her.
Campbell, of Gardener Avenue, Bootle, was jailed for six-and-a-half years, ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life and given a life-time restraining order to keep away from the woman.
CONNOR HOWELL
Drug-dealer Howell hid a Kinder Egg full of crack and heroin up his bottom and went on a rampage through a busy hospital to escape police.
The 24-year-old was arrested in a car containing a tub of Vaseline and holding a wad of cash by police officers patrolling a drug dealing hotspot in the Woodlands, Birkenhead.
Howell was taken to hospital after a strip search revealed plastic protruding from his anus, but managed to remove the Kinder Egg, ditch the drugs and re-insert it when officers were distracted.
Howell, of Lucerne Road in Wallasey, was jailed for three years at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting escape from lawful custody, perverting the course of justice and criminal damage.
ANDREW GOSLING
Gosling was jailed for four-and-a-half years after being found with a home-made nail bomb and pistols.
The bomb squad were called out on two separate occasions after devices were found in a car driven by the 52-year-old and in his home in Leigh Road, West Kirby.
Police had been called after a “road rage” incident saw Gosling point a home-made gas powered pellet gun at another man, who had confronted him about blocking a road.
He was locked up at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possession of a firearm, two counts of making an explosive substance and two of possessing an explosive substance.
AGAMPODI DEZOYSA
Sick sex attacker Dezoysa repeatedly raped a teenager, once in a Liverpool hotel room, and filmed her cleaning up her own blood after subjecting her to a brutally violent attack.
He was jailed for 12 years, with an extended licence period of five years, for his campaign of psychological, sexual and physical abuse, against his victim.
Manchester Crown Court heard how Dezoysa first met his victim at a party and showered her and her friends with gifts.
However over the next month he subjected her to a string of sex attacks in hotel rooms, including The Block hotel in Liverpool, after controlling and manipulating her.
The 25-year-old, even scared his victim into believing he was a serial killer and claimed to have killed 37 people - saying he had ‘strangled a woman and snapped her neck because she had shot his grandmother.’
Dezoysa, of Church Lane, Brent, North London, pleaded guilty to four counts of rape, assault causing grievous bodily harm, and criminal damage at earlier hearings.
He was also diagnosed with a personality disorder.
RYAN KEARNS
Callous thug Kearns smashed a woman in the face with a knuckleduster in a sickening unprovoked attack.
He approached Roxanne Glorman at the House of Fraser department store in Birkenhead and attacked her inside the building.
The 27-year-old was sent crashing to the floor and suffered a fractured eye socket, two wounds which needed gluing back together, and numerous facial bruises.
Police were called and Kearns was arrested and later charged.
Now, Kearns, of Bridge Street, Birkenhead, has admitted an offence of assault and possession of an offensive weapon.
He pleaded guilty at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court but was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court.
He was jailed for 14 months.
JORDAN HUNTER
Teenage internet menace Hunter caused terror in the United States with hoax 911 calls that led to heavily armed police SWAT teams being sent to apartment buildings and universities.
He thought he was untouchable by hiding his internet address behind a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and using Skype to call in twisted bomb and mass shooting threats – a sick prank known as ‘swatting’.
But in reality the then 17-year-old was sat in his parents house in Boundary Street, Southport, plotting his next target with internet pals across the world.
Four years later Hunter, now 21, was brought to justice and jailed for 16 months at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting three counts of perpetrating a bomb hoax.
Hunter, also known as Jordan Lee-Bevan, and his online associates were eventually brought down by a complex joint investigation between the American FBI and the British South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU).
TERENCE RILEY
Convicted drug dealer Riley blames his life of crime on having found the body of murdered toddler James Bulger.
Riley, who was 13 when he and his elder brother stumbled across the two-year-old on a Walton railway line in 1993, was this week jailed for money laundering.
He was arrested on December 16, 2016 after police became suspicious on seeing him in a taxi in Norris Green and when searched they found a significant amount of cash in his pockets.
Liverpool Crown Court heard officers then went to search his then-home in Litherland and found more cash, a Rolex watch and the keys to a valuable Audi motor car which was parked nearby, The total cash recovered was £33,334 and combined with the £2,500 watch and the £15,000 Audi the value of the seized items was £50,834.
When interviewed 38-year-old Riley, of Boundary Street, Vauxhall made no comment but went on to plead guilty to money laundering.
He was jailed for 16 months.
CONOR REDROBE
Armed police caught Redrobe with two live bullets for automatic guns wedged in a package between his buttocks.
Officers swooped on a car in Lower House Lane in Norris Green at around 9.20pm on November 9 last year.
Police said six men were arrested and a stash of guns and drugs later found at a house in nearby Carsington Road.
When the officers stopped the vehicle they smelled cannabis when they opened the doors.
More police arrived in vans and each of the group - including 21-year-old Redrobe - were taken aside to be searched.
Redrobe was handcuffed when officers noticed “a large white package between his buttocks”.
A struggle ensued and the package fell to the floor, which the court heard police initially suspected contained drugs.
Two Winchester 9mm rounds were found inside, which were capable of being fired from a suitable weapon.
Redrobe, of Sutherland Road, Prescot, made no comment in interview but admitted two counts of possessing live ammunition and was jailed for 18 months.
CHRISTOPHER GUNNING
Martial arts instructor Gunning slit his housemate’s throat with a meat cleaver.
The former drug dealer and recovering addict ambushed Christopher Heywood after arguing with his friend of 15 years at their shared home in Hothfield Road, Wallasey.
After slashing him nine times, the 38-year-old smashed a glass cannabis bong over his head and the victim ran into the street covered in blood.
High Court judge Mr Justice Robin Spencer jailed Gunning for 12 years, after he was found guilty of attempted murder.
He admitted wounding with intent, but burst into tears when he was found guilty of attempted murder after a four-day trial.
PAUL SIMON GREEN
Green was jailed for his involvement “in a deadly duel” with a dad-of-two on an exit road from the Runcorn Central Expressway.
Liverpool Crown Court heard part of the Expressway was limited to 40mph because of roadworks and as motorbiker Aiden Davies sped along at twice that limit his friend Green kept pace in his Ford Focus RS Turbo.
Judge Denis Watson QC said witnesses described them as so close together it was as if “you were one along that piece of carriageway.”
Jailing Green, 29, the judge said that both men were using high powered vehicles and just before they entered the Expressway “and without needing to speak to each other you challenged each other to a short, high speed and unhappily, deadly duel.
“As you went into the slip road you were at high speed following Aiden Davies’ motorbike. You drove onto the Expressway for that short period of time and then were both heading off at the next slip road.
“The bike was ahead of you moving at, I find, at least 80mph and may well have been faster. As you said yourself in your own estimate in interview possibly even 90 - 100 mph.”
As Mr Davies went round a bend on the exit slip road “his speed was too high and he lost control of the bike as he tried to bank to the left and slid at high speed himself colliding with a lamppost.”
He said Green was so close behind he could not stop and because their vehicles were on different trajectories they did not collide. Green stopped as soon as he could and called an ambulance.
The judge added their challenge to each other not only risked their own lives but those of other road users.
He jailed Green, of Falcons Way, Hallwood Park, Runcorn, for four years and banned him from driving for seven years.
ANTHONY MORGAN
Morgan, who was jailed for raping a little girl hundreds of times, confessed to abusing another child when she was a toddler.
He was jailed for 16 years in March 2017 after he raped a victim from when she was aged six onwards.
The alcohol and cocaine-fuelled paedophile was handed an extended four years on licence for the “campaign of rape”.
But the 42-year-old was dragged back to Liverpool Crown Court this week after another traumatised victim came forward.
Morgan, formerly of Ullet Road, Toxteth, admitted eight counts of rape against this girl, from when she was aged three.
Judge Andrew Menary, QC, jailed him for 18-and-a-half years – starting today – with an extended six years on licence.
He said: “What you did to this victim has effectively ruined her life. It’s highly unlikely she will now enjoy normal, healthy child relationships.
“Any adult relationship for her will be challenging, particularly intimate relationships, which she is bound to find very difficult indeed.
“What this means is you have devastated the lives now of two children.”
CONNOR GILBOY
Gilboy was back in court this month after smashing into a couple’s car during a police chase.
He became the city’s youngest recipient of an anti-social behaviour order when he was aged just 11.
Now aged 22, the racist thug and convicted drug dealer was jailed last summer after slashing a man’s face with a screw.
But while he was wanted by police for that offence, Gilboy, of Mentmore Crescent, Norris Green, led officers on a high speed pursuit.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how police spotted a BMW bearing false plates at around midday on March 14 last year.
Nick Cockrell, prosecuting, said police followed the car from St Anne Street to County Road, as Gilboy hit speeds of 60mph.
He overtook and undertook cars, drove on the wrong side of the road and through red lights, then hit a central reservation.
Gilboy turned down Stuart Road and bounced over speed bumps, before finally crashing into a Mini Cooper on Breeze Hill.
He fled and hid behind a wheelie bin, but was arrested and later provided a statement claiming he wasn’t the driver.
He then made no comment and denied dangerous driving, but changed his plea to guilty ahead of a trial.
The judge jailed Gilboy for 14 months and banned him from the road for two years and eight months.
LOUIS BOLTON
Dad-of-two Bolton stashed more than £24,000 of cocaine and cannabis at his mum’s house – leading to her arrest.
The 29-year-old ran up a drug debt and agreed to be a “warehouse” man for dealers on a “substantial level”.
But he stored the drugs – along with nearly £2,400 of dirty cash – in his mum’s back garden and kitchen.
Liverpool Crown Court heard police raided her house in Milton Street, Southport, at around 4.10pm on June 1 last year.
Chris Taylor, prosecuting, said a wooden box was concealed in the garden, containing 200 wraps of cocaine, weighing 134g.
Numerous freezer bags containing 486g of cannabis were also found within the box, which bore Bolton’s fingerprints.
In total, there was 734g of cannabis, with an estimated value of £10,942, and 210 wraps of cocaine, worth up to £13,476.
Bolton’s mum was arrested, taken into custody and charged with possession of the drugs with intent to supply. The following day, Bolton rang police and said he was responsible for the items, before he too was charged.
Bolton, of Milton Street, admitted possessing cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply, possessing cannabis and criminal property.
The court heard the charges against his mum were dropped as a result of his guilty pleas.
Bolton has 39 previous convictions for 56 offences, including possession of drugs, but none for drug dealing. He also admitted breaching a nine-month sentence, suspended for two years in January 2016, for dangerous driving.
Bolton was jailed for three years and activated two months of his suspended sentence.
BEN WILLIAMS
Williams tried to fool police by giving them a false name after he was caught with nearly £1,000 of heroin and cocaine.
He was questioned by officers after they stopped a car he was travelling in on Halton View Road, in Widnes.
The 18-year-old, of Beech Terrace, Kensington, provided the name “Jack Mason”, at around 11.50pm on January 18 this year.
But he was rumbled by a mobile fingerprint checking machine which revealed his true identity within a matter of minutes.
Liverpool Crown Court heard he was challenged and told an officer: “Yeah lad, I was scared, so I said my name was Jack Mason.”
Williams was taken to Widnes police station, where he was asked to remove his clothing and a package fell from his tracksuit bottoms.
Chris Taylor, prosecuting, said it contained 69 wraps of heroin, weighing 8.18g, plus 28 wraps of cocaine, weighing 2.49g, all in £10 street deals.
Williams admitted possessing the £970 of heroin and cocaine with intent to supply.
However, he pleaded guilty on the basis he was delivering the drugs to someone else and was not a “street dealer”.
Jailing him for two years and two months, the judge told Williams: “You knew exactly what you were doing.
“You were playing an important part in the chain of delivery of drugs.
“You plainly also had a financial motive for doing what you did, in other words, paying off your drug debt.”
KEVIN HOLLOWAY
Holloway grabbed a mountain bike from a frightened schoolboy and threatened to kill him and a friend before riding off on the prized possession.
He targeted the 12-year-old just after he met a friend at a Merseyrail station on a Saturday lunchtime, grabbing the bike and its owner.
The 41-year-old was jailed after Liverpool Crown Court heard how the robbery had unfolded - and how it had destroyed one of his victims’ dreams of working with trains.
Holloway boarded a Merseyrail service from Ormskirk towards Liverpool one morning in early 2017.
Paul Wood, prosecuting, said: “He [the boy] noticed the defendant kept looking at him and his bike. He then got off the train at the first stop, which was Aughton Park.
“He was closely followed behind by his defendant. He met up with his 12-year-old friend on the platform and the defendant walked ahead of the two friends. He was looking back at the boys and quickly making his way to the top of the staircase.”
The friends helped each other carry the bike to the top of the stairs, at which point Holloway struck.
Mr Wood continued: “He didn’t look at the boy but came to him and with one hand grabbed the left-hand bar grip of the bike and grabbed his shoulder with his other hand.
“When the boy tried to hold on, he grabbed his arm and said: ‘Give me your bike or I will kill you’.”
After grabbing the £320-valued bike, Holloway, of Ford Lane, in Litherland, then rode off while yelling at the victim’s friend: “I’m coming after you now, kid.”
The pair then ran into the booking office in fear.
Holloway was traced after a CCTV appeal was circulated and, while he admitted robbery, said he did not know what he had done with the bike.
He was jailed for 16 months.
FRANCIS HUMPHRIES
Humphries is behind bars again after leading police on an 80mph chase in a stolen Mercedes.
He was only stopped when officers threw a stinger device across the path of the luxury vehicle as he tried to flee police on a Cheshire road.
The 23-year-old - whose 22 previous convictions span 45 offences and include a rooftop protest in Garston - was jailed for 15 months over the incident.
Police came across Humphries while they were on the hunt for two Mercedes stolen in a burglary at a home in Aigburth on February 1.
Chris Taylor, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court one of the cars - a Class 220 - was fitted with a tracking device traced to the Hunts Cross area the following day.
Police followed the device’s signals as the car was driven onto the M62 and into Cheshire, exiting onto the M6 before travelling to High Lea, near Knutsford.
A chase followed, leading to police deploying a stinger and stopping Humphries.
Humphries, of no fixed abode but previously from Garston, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking and driving while disqualified. There is no evidence to suggest he was involved in the initial burglary.
CRAIG HEALEY
A have-a-go hero chased down a brute fleeing Liverpool city centre after flooring a pensioner with a left hook.
Craig Healey left his elderly victim lying unconscious on the Dale Street pavement after the pair accidentally “knocked shoulders”.
The 31-year-old was then pulled from a taxi by a group led by Colin Barrett, a passer-by who chased down the attacker as he attempted to leave the area.
Healey left his 75-year-old victim bleeding from his ears and with two fractured bones after the incident, in January 2017.
The pensioner’s head hit the pavement with an “horrific crack”, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Chris Taylor, prosecuting, explained Healey “did not break stride” and carried on walking towards Sir Thomas Street - shouting: “He bumped into me” to one witness who questioned his actions.
That man - Mr Barrett - then pursued him and saw him getting into a taxi in Victoria Street.
Mr Barrett and other members of the public pulled him from the vehicle and detained him until the forklift truck driver claimed he had a knife and ran off towards Mathew Street.
CCTV cameras captured him getting into another cab in Hanover Street - only for the vehicle to get stuck in traffic, allowing police to arrest him.
Healey, of Blakeacre Road, Halewood, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm and was jailed for 15 months.
CONNOR ADEN and OLIVER GARSIDE
The boyfriend of a Liverpool teenager who died after taking an ecstasy tablet he gave her was jailed for eight months.
The dealer who sold the pill that killed 17-year-old Faye Allen was also locked up.
Faye, from Liverpool, suffered a fatal reaction after taking the Class A drug during an event at the Victoria Warehouse in Stretford, Manchester, in May 2016.
The tablet had been handed her by her boyfriend Connor Aden, 19, who bought them from dealer Oliver Garside, 21, on May 2, 2016.
It was the first time the teen had taken the drug and the first time she had been to a nightclub or a rave.
Now Aden of Rutter Street, Toxteth, and Garside, of Junction Road, in Rainford, have been jailed at Manchester Crown Court for drugs offences.
The court heard how Garside, 21, sold Aden three MDMA tablets. Aden took one and gave the other two to Faye and another friend.
Both admitted supplying Class A drugs and Garside was jailed for two years and four months, while Faye’s boyfriend Aden was locked up for eight months.
