This list features 69 people jailed in November for crimes linked to Merseyside.
Judges sentenced a vicious boyfriend who battered his vulnerable partner to death and a 'devil' dad who murdered his baby after his wife covered up his abuse.
Courts heard about a man who left his girlfriend's lover paralysed and a mum who sped at nearly 60mph through a red light and put a little girl in a coma.
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Judges also had to sentence a knife-wielding thug who killed a young man from Crosby in a 90-minute stabbing spree, a thieving paramedic who pinched defibrillators from ambulances and a rapist described as "every mother's living nightmare".
Meanwhile, other disturbing cases included a depraved paedophile who blackmailed girls into carrying out humiliating abuse and a twisted pervert who called himself "Papa Bear".
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past month.
Brandon Mullin
Brandon Mullin exploited the failures of a mum as he raped and sexually abused two of her vulnerable children.
The teenager preyed on the youngsters - two siblings a judge said were victims of the worst neglect he had ever seen.
His terrible abuse - including the rape of a boy and abuse of a girl - only ended when the children were taken into care.
Mullin, 19, of Kensington Road, Kensington, was found guilty of 10 sexual offences against his two victims after a trial.
He was a child himself at the time of the abuse, but Judge Garrett Byrne said he was a "cold and calculated individual".
The judge said: "I am satisfied you knew perfectly well what you were doing was wrong."
Mullin was locked up for 13 years, with an extended licence period of three years.
Alexander Bancroft-Brooks
Alexander Bancroft-Brooks threw a large kitchen knife he bought "to protect himself" onto the grounds of a school as he tried to flee police.
The 22-year-old admitted carrying a bladed weapon when he refused to stop his bike for officers on Smithdown Road on September 9 this year.
The ensuing chase saw him throw the kitchen knife onto the grounds of Archbishop Blanch School, where the weapon was recovered.
He was already subject to an eight-month suspended sentence from February for possession of articles for use in fraud.
Bancroft-Brooks, of Copperfield Close, Toxteth, was jailed for nine months in total.
Christopher Barnes
A pervert masseur sexually assaulted women after he had been arrested by police over similar attacks on other clients.
Christopher Barnes, 46, was found guilty after a trial of molesting six victims, taking the total number of women he has abused to eight.
One of the victims at his Rose Lane clinic told Barnes she hoped he "rotted in hell" for the psychological damage he had caused her.
Barnes, of Wellington Street, Garston, previously groped two women in 2018, leaving them feeling disgusted, vulnerable and frightened.
He admitted two counts of sexual assault weeks before a trial and was handed 20 months in prison, suspended for two years, in June 2019.
But after reading about his vile exploits in the ECHO, six more women contacted police to say they too had been sexually abused by him.
Three of those sex attacks happened after the remorseless creep had been arrested and interviewed by police in April 2018.
Barnes was jailed for four years.
Charlie Dowling
Charlie Dowling who turned to street dealing to pay off his drug debt was caught "red handed" by police.
The then 17-year-old was arrested with 43 bags of heroin and 84 bags of crack cocaine at around midnight in Bedford Road, Bootle.
When asked if he had any drugs, Dowling, of Skipton Road, Anfield, replied "yes, a lot", on November 10 last year.
He was also carrying around £200 in cash and his mobile phone contained "flare" adverts for drugs sent out to customers.
The now 18-year-old, already has nine convictions for 27 offences, including robbery, burglary, assault, possessing drugs and motoring offences.
He admitted two offences of possessing drugs with intent to supply and was locked up for two years and two months.
Peter Bancroft
Peter Bancroft arranged to meet an 11-year-old girl for sex after grooming her online.
The dad-of-five didn't realise the child didn't actually exist and he was talking to paedophile hunters Stop UK.
The 65-year-old - who was later found to have child sex abuse images on his mobile phone - began chatting to 'Sally' on Facebook on June 17 this year.
The grandad, of Eccleston Avenue, Bromborough, arranged to meet 'Sally' in Oldham on July 11, only to be met by Stop UK, then arrested by the police.
Bancroft admitted attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and arranging the commission of a child sex offence.
He also admitted seven offences involving downloading and possessing indecent images of children, plus extreme pornography.
Bancroft was jailed for three years and nine months.
Gun crooks
Two men who came to Liverpool to collect a gun were caught red handed in a Mercedes.
Sefer Allushi and Erald Sida were put in contact with James McGlade via cocaine and heroin dealer Dominic Valerio.
McGlade had stashed a German air pistol - converted to fire live ammunition - in the Toxteth home of Thomas Lawler.
Allushi and Sida drove in a Mercedes car to Lawler's address in Corinto Street, where they met McGlade and Lawler.
But armed police struck at the moment the weapon was handed over, at around 8.20pm, on Thursday, March 11 this year.
All five men admitted possessing a prohibited firearm, while Lawler also pleaded guilty to possessing prohibited ammunition.
Lawler, 24, of Corinto Street, Toxteth, who has robbery and dangerous driving on his criminal record, was jailed for six years.
McGlade, 24, of Lower Hall Street, St Helens, whose previous convictions include robbery, burglary and wounding, was jailed for five years and 10 months.
Allushi, 26, of no fixed address, and Sida, 31, of Nursery Road, Walsall, both of whom have no previous convictions, were jailed for five years each.
Valerio, 28, of High Street, Wavertree, also admitted unrelated charges of being concerned in the supply of both heroin and cocaine, dangerous driving, possessing both crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply, possessing criminal property and failing to surrender to custody.
The convicted money launderer was jailed for 11 years.
Daniel Palmer
Daniel Palmer hit a young mum in the eye with his mobile phone leaving her disfigured and with double vision.
He told his victim "why are you making me do this?" as he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her head first into a radiator and wall.
The 21-year-old then hit her with the phone - breaking her left eye socket and cheekbone - when she felt "like something had popped".
He repeated "oh my God" when he saw the injuries he had caused to the mum of his little girl at a house in Queens Drive in Walton.
The woman - who the ECHO has chosen not to name - may never make a full recovery from the attack on June 27 this year.
Palmer, of Alder Avenue, Widnes, admitted wounding and was jailed for two and a half years.
Matthew Philbin
Matthew Philbin took a mum out on a first date just hours before "crawling like a monster" into her teenage daughter's bed and raping her.
The year-old predator and the woman went bowling before heading back to her home for a few drinks when he briefly met her child.
But later that night, the 33-year-old said he was going to the toilet but instead crept into his victim's bedroom and attacked her.
She fought back, kicking him in an attempt to stop him from raping her, but Philbin threatened to shoot her if she screamed further.
He used her phone's torch so he could look at her as he carried out the vile attack, which left her with numerous injuries to her face and head.
Philbin, of Dukinfield Farm, Warrington, pleaded guilty to rape following the cocaine and alcohol-fuelled attack.
He was jailed for eight years, with an extended five years on licence.
Shaun Roberts
Shaun Roberts laughed uncontrollably after kicking a pregnant girl's stomach and hitting another over the head with a beer bottle.
The 29-year-old invited Rebecca Barlow and her friend Eleanor Bradshaw back to his flat in Alexandra Park, Aigburth after a house party.
But during a conversation at around 5am on May 16, 2020, he started shouting and headbutting the walls, then "became paranoid".
He held Ms Barlow down and punched her in the back of her head, then when Ms Bradshaw intervened, banged the women's heads together.
Ms Bradshaw was in the early stages of pregnancy, which Roberts knew, but he "stamped on her stomach" and told her she "didn't deserve a baby".
Roberts also hit a bottle of beer against Ms Barlow's head and held his knee against her neck, before he fell to the floor laughing and they escaped.
He admitted two counts of assault, plus assaulting an emergency worker, public disorder and obstructing a railway over an incident at Sandhills train station.
He made vile threats and the disruption resulted in one train cancellation and a 374-minute delay, which meant £18,000 lost in revenue, on April 24 this year.
Roberts was jailed for three years and two months in total.
Christopher McIntyre
A girl nearly killed herself after being targeted by a rapist described as "every mother's living nightmare".
Christopher McIntyre started chatting to his victim on Instagram then gave her a "secret" mobile phone.
After sending the schoolgirl explicit images, he met up with the child and raped her on three occasions.
The girl has since tried to kill herself and once "almost succeeded" as a result of his horrific abuse.
The child's mum described how seeing her daughter lying in a hospital bed made her "break inside".
McIntyre, 35, of Risbury Road, Norris Green, was found guilty of three counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault after a trial.
He was jailed for 18 years with an extended four years on licence.
Jamie Metcalfe
Jamie Metcalfe strangled his pregnant girlfriend and dragged her down a flight of stairs to throw her outside.
The 28-year-old, of Thorn Road, Runcorn, launched the attack on his partner in his flat at around 2am on Saturday, September 4 this year.
Metcalfe "strangled" his victim then "lifted her off the couch by her neck" as she struggled to breathe, before chasing her with a knife.
The attack continued as he hit the woman, who was seven months pregnant with their unborn baby, and gagged her with his hands when she called for help.
He then dragged his victim - who the ECHO chose not to name - down the stairs, threw her outside, and smashed her phone.
Metcalfe admitted assault causing actual bodily harm, assault by beating, and two counts of criminal damage.
He was jailed for three years.
Peter Robinson
Child rapist Peter Robinson lured one of his victims to a fake party at a high-rise flat and then attacked her.
He targeted another girl after tricking her into his car and driving her to a secluded spot, where he only broke off his attacks so he could have a cigarette.
Robinson tried to cover up his horrific crimes by telling his vulnerable schoolgirl victims that if they spoke out he would get social services to make their lives a misery.
He was found guilty after a trial of one count of indecent assault, eight counts of rape and three counts of the rape of a child under the age of 13.
The 56-year-old, of Dunnerdale Road in Norris Green, who had no previous convictions, left his victims with severe psychological harm.
He was jailed for 23 years with an extended one year on licence.
Andrew Sheilds
Andrew Sheilds who was caught with 148 wraps of crack cocaine blamed the death of his baby for his descent into criminality.
The 29-year-old was arrested after police followed him in a car travelling from Widnes to Runcorn, at around 2pm, on Wednesday, October 6 this year.
The dad-of-four was the front seat passenger in a Kia Sportage car and later found to be carrying around £1,480 of the Class A drug in £10 deals.
Sheilds said he had been depressed after the death of his child two years' previously and because of difficulties over access to his other children.
Sheilds, of Camelot Way, Runcorn, said this led to more drug use and spiralling debt but admitted possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply.
He was jailed for two years and four months.
Barry Wilkinson
Barry Wilkinson was caught dealing drugs after a neighbour phoned police with concerns for his wellbeing.
The 42-year-old had previously been arrested twice on drug related offences before he told police he "was being forced to sell drugs".
Police called at Wilkinson’s home in St Anne’s Way, Birkenhead on July 27 last year, when they noted a strong smell of cannabis.
They found large bags of cannabis with a potential street value of £7,300, which he was packing, and 21g of heroin, worth up to £1,200.
On March 7 this year, officers stopped him in Watson Street, Birkenhead, and seized a "graft" mobile phone, used to sell drugs.
At his home were 42 wraps of crack cocaine and nine wraps of heroin worth a total of £510, some £3,000 in cash, scales and a tick list.
On July 1, a friend and neighbour of Wilkinson rang police telling them she was concerned about him.
At his home officers found a crack pipe, nine wraps of crack cocaine and 57 wraps of heroin, worth a total of £335.
Wilkinson admitted six counts of possessing drugs with intent to supply and was jailed for two and a half years.
Kieran McKechnie
Kieran McKechnie carried out a frenzied attack on a taxi driver while he was a passenger in his vehicle.
He punched Mohammed Ammanulah numerous times while riding in his car and later told the Delta driver "around here we'll shoot you".
Mr Amanullah said his life would "never be the same" after the attack, which was triggered by a conversation between him and McKechnie about whether he was English.
McKecnnie, 32, of Anders Drive, Kirkby, was found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm over the incident in November 2019.
He was jailed for 18 months.
Daniel Condliff
A gang that flooded the streets with £1m of crack cocaine and heroin operated under the name "Scouse J".
Daniel Condliff, 26, acted as an 'area manager', with 11 drug dealers working under him, supplying drugs from Liverpool to Hull.
He was arrested when police raided his home in Auburn Road, Tuebrook in January and caught him throwing 56 wraps of heroin into his neighbour's garden.
The dad-of-two had adulterants for cutting drugs, plus a machete and a cash counting machine, and his burner phone - the 'Scouse J' line - showed evidence of £1m of drug deals, between March 9, 2020 and January 4, 2021.
He admitted possessing both Class A drugs with intent to supply, being concerned in their supply, and possessing criminal property, namely £3,000 in cash.
Condliff was jailed for 10 years.
Leslie Marshall
Leslie Marshall dropped his children off at school then came home and stabbed his wife in the neck.
The dad-of-four's vicious ambush on his partner included a knife wound "one or two centimetres" away from her heart.
She only survived after fighting with him frantically before escaping through their back garden and climbing over a fence, but has been left scarred for life.
The 51-year-old chef attacked his wife on June 25 this year, the morning after she called time on their marriage as a result of his gambling addiction, which had put the family under significant financial strain.
Their home, on Virginia Street in Southport, had been remortgaged multiple times and the family were struggling with debt as a result of his addiction.
Marshall admitted attempted murder and was jailed for 19 and a half years, with an extended five years on licence.
Michael Sloan
Michael Sloan used his three children as cover for an international £2m heroin smuggling plot.
The 42-year-old told Border Force officers he was driving back from a family holiday to see Christmas markets in Germany.
But hidden in the dad's campervan was 20kg of the Class A drug - with a purity between 44% and 59% - stashed in a secret compartment.
Sloan was stopped as he drove his partner and three children - aged between one and six - through Dover Eastern Docks in December 2019.
The 42-year-old, of Bridge Street in Ormskirk, admitted smuggling Class A drugs.
He was jailed for six years and four months.
Alan Healey
Alan Healey molested a "lost" and vulnerable boy who was in care because he had already been sexually abused.
The serial sex offender has multiple convictions involving exposing himself in front of children in public over three decades.
The 53-year-old, of Upper Pitt Street in Liverpool city centre, was last jailed in 2017, after following a boy onto a bus.
But it then emerged he targeted his first victim - aged just nine - when he himself was 17 and 18, in the late 1980s.
The pervert denied five counts of indecent assault, but was found guilty after a trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
He was jailed for four years.
Daniel Mendes
Daniel Mendes was caught with a "graft" phone when pulled over by police in the Mersey Tunnel.
The 20-year-old, of Carmarthen Crescent, Toxteth, operated a phone line that sent thousands of messages to drug users.
But on June 8 this year, he was a passenger in a car stopped by officers that led to the operation coming crashing down.
The conspiracy ran between March 29 and June 8, 2021, and the drug dealing phone was named the "Mo Line".
Mendes, who admitted his role in the plot, was jailed for four years and two months.
Deborah McGovern
Deborah McGovern ran a red light while speeding and left a little girl in a coma.
The mum-of-four was doing 58mph in a 40mph zone when her white Land Rover smashed into a car carrying a mother and her child in Maghull.
The 51-year-old admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving at the crossroads between Northway and Westway on October 27 last year.
Dental therapist McGovern hit the young family's Mercedes at around 10.30pm, sending both vehicles spinning onto the other side of the road.
The victim, who was seven at the time, suffered life changing injuries and months later still suffers from headaches, blurred vision and other problems.
McGovern, 51, of Gaw Hill View, Aughton - president of the British Association for Dental Therapists - initially claimed someone else caused the crash.
She was jailed for 16 months.
Anthony Contento
Anthony Contento called himself "Papa Bear" on an app he used to distribute child rape images while collecting children's underwear.
The paedophile, from Birkdale, admitted distributing the most serious child sex abuse images, of victims aged as young as four, on Randochat.
Despite avoiding jail for similar offences in 2019, and being offered support to improve his behaviour, the undeterred pervert went on to offend again.
Police raided his home in Welbeck Road in September and found his stash of clothing and more than 130 disturbing photos and videos on his phone.
The 54-year-old admitted downloading, distributing and possessing indecent images of children, possessing extreme porn, and breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
He was jailed for three years.
Roy Fagan
Serial woman beater Roy Fagan knocked out six of his ex-girlfriend's teeth in two terrifying street attacks.
The mum of his child took him back - for the sake of their daughter - after Fagan convinced her he'd "changed".
But a judge branded him "possessive, jealous, aggressive and violent" after hearing about his cowardly attacks on four different women, dating back to 2006.
Fagan, 37, of Westmorland Drive, Liverpool city centre, battered his latest victim in February and April this year, then broke into and smashed up her home.
He admitted two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm, burglary with intent to commit criminal damage, criminal damage, and three counts of breaching a restraining order.
Fagan was jailed for three years.
Devere Knight
Devere Knight was part of a county lines drug gang which operated between Liverpool and North Wales.
On Tuesday, October 12, North Wales Police stopped the car Knight was travelling whilst he was leaving Rhyl in North Wales.
He was later arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, namely as part of the 'Ryan' county line drugs supply.
The 33-year-old, of Gilbert Street, Liverpool city centre, admitted conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin.
He was jailed for six years.
Kevin Ashton
Kevin Ashton battered a vulnerable mum to death then went on the hunt for drugs.
The remorseless killer claimed Helen Joy's horrific injuries were self-inflicted as he peddled lie after lie from the witness stand during his murder trial.
Jurors took just 143 minutes to find him guilty of murder after hearing he relayed his partner's death to his cannabis dealer and his dad, but never to the emergency services.
When he was finally arrested, Ashton had the audacity to then moan: "My f***ing bird is dead, and I'm getting the blame for it now."
Ms Joy, 54, was found with 121 external injuries at the couple's Leasowe flat on Monday, February 1 this year after Ashton's dad "did the right thing" and reported her death.
Ashton, 45, claimed the mum-of-three's injuries were the result of repeated falls, but he already had three convictions for assaults on her, in 2015, 2018 and 2019.
He was jailed for life with a minimum of 19 years.
Connor Hegarty
Connor Hegarty coerced a schoolgirl into performing a sex act on him then kept trying to groom her even after her mum found out.
The 27-year-old, of Fairburn, Skelmersdale, touched the teenager inappropriately and bombarded her with indecent messages.
The girl's horrifying ordeal in 2017 was only found out when her mum discovered messages between the two and confronted him.
He admitted three counts of sexual activity with a child - but only after first denying it and forcing her to give evidence in a trial.
The then 23-year-old, who had told his victim "your ar** is mine", left the girl suffering from panic attacks and night terrors.
He was jailed for six years.
Scott Sutherland
Thieving paramedic Scott Sutherland stole thousands of pounds of life-saving defibrillators from ambulances.
The former North West Ambulance Service employee initially stole two defibrillators during his 23-year career with the service.
The 47-year-old then transferred to the South West Ambulance Service and a new home in Pearse Gardens, Modbury, Devon in 2019.
But when he became desperate for money he travelled back to Merseyside and stole three more defibrillators - worth £30,000 - and a battery charging unit from three separate ambulance stations in an overnight raiding trip in February 2020.
He was seen on CCTV as he used pin codes to enter ambulance stations at Bootle, Runcorn and Kirkby and steal the equipment, meaning two ambulances had to be taken off the road, after texting his wife: "What in God’s earth am I doing, I must be mad."
Sutherland was jailed for three years.
Barry Wiley
Barry Wiley said he'd travel 40 miles to have sex with a 13-year-old girl in her mother's bed.
The 53-year-old bombarded a person he thought was a child called "Maddison" with sick texts and naked photos.
He offered to pay for the girl's train fare to Liverpool, then said he'd travel to her home in Rochdale while her mum was out, despite the fact Maddison told him she was "scared".
But the pervert was actually talking to a retired teacher acting as a decoy for paedophile hunter group Elusive Child Protection Unit in July last year.
Wiley, of Dacy Road, Everton, admitted attempted sexual communication with a child, attempting to cause a child to look at sexual activity and attempting to arrange a child sex offence, namely sexual activity with a child.
He was jailed for three years and nine months.
William Skillen
Cocaine dealer William Skillen was linked to a sinister drug gang who threatened to "chop off ears" and batter an OAP in a £500,000 robbery plot.
The six-man crime group from Warrington, Manchester and Hertfordshire were all involved in supplying drugs worth almost a quarter of a million pounds.
Five of the men also conspired to commit a robbery in which they planned to tie up the victims at their home and cut off the ear of one of them.
Skillen, 35, of Long Lane, Orford, Warrington, was found to be an EncroChat user, using the handle "SavageArrow".
Skillen, who admitted conspiracy to supply cocaine and failing to comply with a serious crime prevention order, was jailed for 15 years.
Elliot Nicklin
Elliot Nicklin blackmailed teenage girls from all over the world into performing humiliating sex acts by threatening to kill himself if they refused.
He used a web of online personas to lure his victims into his sadistic world and abused them online, on one occasion making a girl carve his name into her breast.
Detectives believe he abused more than 70 teenage girls and have traced more than two dozen. Many were left psychologically scarred and even suicidal.
He admitted 27 offences between 2014 and 2020, including the possession of more than 1,500 indecent images of children, 85 of which were Category A, featuring child rape.
The now 22-year-old also sent eight pictures and videos of his victims to other contacts.
Nicklin admitted further counts of inciting child sexual abuse, blackmail, sexual communication with a child and causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
Nicklin, of Bebington Road in Rock Ferry, was jailed for 10 years.
Stephen Lequesne
Convicted rapist Stephen Lequesne trapped a girl in a set of seats on a Merseyrail train and pleasured himself before following her and doing it again.
He sat next to a 16-year-old girl travelling on a service from Liverpool to Ormskirk last year, then blocked her in by his legs resting on the opposite seat.
The child was so scared she missed her own stop and waited until she could get off the train at its final destination in Ormskirk in August 2020.
But when she tried to get on another train heading back, Lequesne, formerly of Tuebrook, followed her, sat next to her and did exactly the same thing again.
The 23-year-old is currently serving a 10-and-a-half-year sentence for rape, after admitting in October to a brutal street attack on a woman in Southport.
When being sentenced for that rape, the court heard he had previously performed sex acts on buses on two separate occasions in September 2020.
Lequesne, who was found guilty of outraging public decency in his absence after refusing to leave his cell for his trial, was jailed for 12 months.
Antonio Belli
Antonio Belli stashed a pistol inside a carrier bag at a garage after being put under "pressure".
The 61-year-old was caught when police raided the premises in Long Lane, Garston on June 17 this year.
The black handgun was found hidden in the plastic shopping bag at the residential garage at around 9.30am.
Belli, of Allerton Road, Mossley Hill, of previous good character, admitted possession of a prohibited firearm.
Prosecutors said they accepted there had been an element of pressure put on Belli to mind the weapon.
He received the mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.
Chelsea Whittaker
Chelsea Whittaker stole thousands of pounds from the bank accounts of vulnerable people.
The carer helped herself to more than £200,000 from around 30 victims, including some in Skelmersdale, whose finances she was meant to be looking after.
The 31-year-old worked as a service manager for care firm Lifeways, which runs homes across Lancashire for people with limited mental or physical capacity.
One man whose account was drained of £14,000 was unable to pay for proper rehabilitative care as he recovered from a heart attack and died in hospital after becoming anxious and refusing further treatment.
On several occasions between 2015 and 2018, she withdrew cash from her victims' accounts and took some - or all - of it for herself.
Whittaker, of Manchester Road, Accrington, admitted a series of frauds and was jailed for two years and three months.
Stephanie Long
Stephanie Long stole hundreds of thousands of pounds from her employer in a "deluded" ploy to impress her boyfriend with a lavish lifestyle.
The 47-year-old took more than £214,000 from B&M Waste Services over a four-year period from April 2016 onwards, then tried to shred invoices to hide this.
Her role as a purchasing and ledger manager saw her trusted to pay the company's contractors and handle accounts but she abused that position, then used the money she stole for holidays and to go shopping.
The fraud had a devastating impact on B&M and its employees, which was expected to incur a further £120,000 in losses in addition to the money stolen by Long and the money it had to spend to investigate and remedy the problem.
Long, of Isaac Road in Dingle, who admitted fraud by abuse of position, was jailed for three years and four months.
Geoffrey Carse
Geoffrey Carse who was caught with a baby rape video blamed his inability to repress his paedophilia on being isolated during lockdown.
He was convicted of possessing and sharing indecent images in 2014 but, after a suspended sentence and rehabilitation, stayed out of trouble for six years.
Yet police raided his home in Whitney Road, Woolton earlier this year and found he had downloaded and distributed videos showing horrific sexual abuse.
The 68-year-old said he thought he'd found ways of stopping himself, but he had more than 150 indecent images of children, some shared via WhatsApp.
Carse, who admitted breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order and downloading, possessing and distributing indecent images, was jailed for two years and 10 months.
Merseyside Police said they did not hold a recent mugshot of Carse.
Edward Doughty
Edward Doughty slashed a man with a samurai sword so aggressively that he cut through to the bones of one of his hands.
He attacked Craig Johnson in the car park close to his home on Delph Lane in Whiston earlier this year after a fight on the evening of June 1.
The court heard Doughty "effectively hunted Mr Johnson down" and slashed him across the hands and legs with the sword.
It came after long simmering tensions between Doughty and Chris Hawker, Mr Johnson's friend and Doughty's neighbour, over noise at Mr Hawker's flat.
Doughty lost his temper, smashed a window at Mr Hawker's flat, then returned home and got the sword, before he attacked Mr Johnson in a nearby car park.
The 47-year-old, of no fixed address, admitted wounding and was jailed for eight and a half years.
Anthony Cubitt
Anthony Cubitt sexually assaulted a girl after sending her a vile threat.
The "depraved" dad-of-two bombarded the 15-year-old victim with sexually explicit texts and molested her.
The 36-year-old kissed the child and put his hand down her pants - and a court was told she later attempted suicide.
While on bail, he then tried to groom a 12-year-old girl online, only to realise he had been stung by paedophile hunters.
Cubitt, of Grange Road West, Birkenhead, admitted three counts of sexual communication with a child, one of inciting child to engage in sexual activity, two counts of sexual activity with a child and one of attempted sexual communication with a child.
He was jailed for three years.
Mark Foran
Mark Foran battered a flasher who had been seen indecently exposing himself in a park.
After hearing a little girl was among those who had seen the pervert's genitals, three men rushed to the scene and attacked him.
Mateusz Zbroszczyk, 33, suffered facial and head fractures, plus an injured lung and a wound to his leg, on April 15 last year.
The married man was repeatedly stamped on as he lay on the ground and shoe marks were later found within his bruising by doctors.
A judge described his injuries as "life changing" because he can no longer run or play sports, and has been unable to get manual work.
Zbroszczyk was convicted of indecent exposure in the park, off Ribblers Lane in Kirkby, and jailed for 26 weeks in July this year.
Foran, 41, of Midhurst Road, West Derby, who said anger got the better of him, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Jailing him for two years and three months, the judge, Recorder Paul Taylor, said: "It is a case of vigilantism."
Zephaniah McLeod
Zephaniah McLeod stabbed Crosby university graduate Jacob Billington to death in a 90-minute frenzy.
McLeod knifed eight people at random in Birmingham city centre, killing the much-loved 23-year-old, and leaving his close friend in a coma.
The 28-year-old, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, said he heard voices telling him to "harm" or "kill" people for years, but refused to take his medication.
McLeod, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, Birmingham, is said to have remained "calm" and "smirked" - even telling one onlooker "watch this".
He discarded his knife in a drain after attacking three unsuspecting victims in the early hours of September 6, 2020.
After pizza shop staff refused his request for a blade to "cut something", he caught a taxi home, rearmed himself and returned to carry out five more attacks.
McLeod admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, plus four counts of attempted murder and three counts of wounding with intent.
The killer's previous convictions include robbery and attacking a six-month-old baby.
He was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years, but will first be detained in Ashworth Hospital for treatment, before he is later transferred to prison.
Anthony Duckers
Anthony Duckers was convicted of historic sex offences spanning a period of more than 30 years.
The 64-year-old, of Black Horse Close in Newton, Wirral, was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault.
He committed the offences between the 1970s and early 2000s.
Duckers was jailed for 16 years.
Anthony Hather
Anthony Hather showed up at a stranger's house and hit him with a machete in a terrifying attack.
The drug dealer struck at his victim's house in Warrington on April 18 this year, after mistaking it for someone else's home.
The 31-year-old got into a struggle with the homeowner and beat him with the machete, which had its protective cover on.
Hather, of Biggin Court, Padgate, Warrington, was caught by police after the victim found a piece of his skin lodged in his mouth, after biting Hather in the struggle.
He carried out the attack in Birchwood while on bail after being arrested for dealing cannabis in June 2019 and also hurled racist abuse at a police officer.
Hather admitted assault causing actual bodily harm, possessing cannabis with intent to supply, possessing criminal property and a racially aggravated public order offence.
He was jailed for two years and four months.
Ryan Wall
A police search for a missing boy led officers to a gang who targeted young teenagers to sell drugs.
Ryan Wall, 24, of Lakenheath Road in Halewood, was part of a gang found to have exploited vulnerable teens.
Wall, along with three associates, was part of a gang that trafficked Class A drugs and young people from Tameside to Blackpool.
Detectives found a boy missing from the Hyde area had been moved to Blackpool and used to supply crack cocaine and heroin.
Two other teenage boys - missing from the nearby Ashton area - had also been in contact with a number associated with Wall.
Following police raids in October 2020, it was established a drugs line was used to make around £80,000 from exploitation.
Wall admitted four counts of modern slavery and two counts of conspiring to supply Class A drugs.
He was jailed for nine years.
Liam Waite
Mentally ill Liam Waite stabbed two strangers after being invited into one of their homes.
He used a lock knife to stab John Travers and Paul Hughes in Mr Hughes' home on Page Lane in Widnes last year.
The 34-year-old said "who are all those people outside?" and the pair of victims asked him what he was talking about.
He then picked up a knife and stabbed Mr Hughes in the shin, before threatening and then stabbing Mr Travers in the arm.
Waite, of Hale Road, Widnes, admitted wounding Mr Travers with intent and assault causing actual bodily harm to Mr Hughes.
He has 17 previous convictions including past violence and was serving a suspended prison sentence at the time.
But he was detained in hospital rather than jailed, after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the aftermath of the attack.
Cheshire Police did not release his mugshot.
Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor stabbed another man 12 times while shouting "I'm not f***ing gay" after they had sex.
Taylor and the victim, who the ECHO chose not to name, had sex at the man's flat.
When the victim stopped and declined to perform a sex act on Taylor, the 24-year-old flew into a rage.
Taylor, who claimed self-defence, was cleared of wounding with intent, but found guilty of wounding.
At his sentencing, he denied using homophobic slurs and again insisted his victim hit him first with a bottle.
But he sobbed as a judge rejected his claims, then tore off his electronic tag and hurled it across the courtroom.
Taylor, of Mallory Road, Tranmere, carried out the attack at the victim's Wirral flat on June 4, 2020.
He was jailed for three years.
John Charmley
A bullying drug dealer sent naked photos of an ex-girlfriend to her former colleague.
John Charmley admitted sending private images of the woman, less than a year after doing almost an identical thing to two former partners.
It also came just months after the 29-year-old, of Almond Way, Greasby, Wirral, was spared prison for dealing cocaine and cannabis.
Prosecutors said Charmley dated the woman for a number of months, but had been controlling and manipulative.
When they split up, Charmley sent 63 images of her to a former colleague of hers - a married man - and made it look like she sent them.
He admitted sending private photos and videos without consent and breaching his suspended sentence for drug dealing.
He was jailed for two years and 11 months in total.
Alan Harter
Alan Har ter left his girlfriend's lover paralysed when he shouted "die" and stabbed her in the neck.
The jealous dad hurled a brick at Lorraine Maxwell's window after realising his "on and off" partner, Mary Sweeney, was in her bed.
He threatened Miss Maxwell over the phone, shouting: "I'm going to murder you! I'm going to kill you! Watch what I am going to do!"
The 56-year-old, of Onslow Road, Fairfield, armed himself with a steak knife then went to Miss Maxwell's house, four doors down, at around 5.20am.
Harter, who had been snorting cocaine, repeatedly stabbed her, resulting in the nan suffering "immediate right sided paralysis", on Sunday, September 5 this year.
The dad, who had no previous convictions, admitted attempted murder.
He was jailed for 22 and a half years.
Terrence Furlong
Terrence Furlong deliberately set fire to his loft as his neighbours' plans for a "dream home" went up in smoke.
Furlong, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was high on a cocktail of drugs and vodka and had failed to take his prescribed medication.
The 34-year-old, of Crossley Road, Thatto Heath, St Helens, started the blaze just before 1pm on Saturday, July 24 this year.
He told firefighters "someone has thrown petrol through the loft because it was open" but he had a lighter on him and was responsible.
The roof caved in and extensive damage was caused to the house, with fire and smoke damage to the two adjoining homes, totalling more than £100,000.
Furlong, who has no previous convictions, admitted arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
He was jailed for four years.
Oliver Farrell
Oliver Farrell stabbed a man in the back after a "light-hearted" remark at a pub.
James Whiteside was celebrating his 30th birthday at the Railway pub, in Meols, Wirral on July 12, 2019.
Convicted drug dealers Farrell, 21, and Jack Palmer, 20, who had been taking cocaine, were outside in a smoking area at around 10pm.
Prosecutors said Mr Whiteside asked them where the toilets were and made a "light-hearted" remark suggesting Farrell needed a haircut.
Farrell asked Palmer to join him in confronting the victim in the gents, where a fight broke out and Farrell and Mr Whiteside traded punches.
But Farrell had a blade and stabbed Mr Whiteside in the back and cut his ear, before Palmer kicked him in the head as he lay on the floor.
Farrell, of Beckwith Street, Birkenhead, admitted wounding and Palmer, of School Lane, Meols, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.
Farrell was jailed for 14 months and Palmer was handed six months' detention, suspended for two years.
Jack Clements
Jack Clements stole the personal data of thousands of Sky Insurance customers to sell in exchange for Bitcoin.
The computer hacker harvested people's email addresses, passwords and car insurance information from databases he illegally downloaded.
The 21-year-old also targeted customers of American company Hairmax, which has offices in the UK selling hair related products, last year.
But he was rumbled after he offered Sky Insurance records for sale for $900 of cryptocurrency, only for a buyer to complain he'd ripped him off.
Clements, of Kramar Walk, Kirkby, hacked six Hairmax files and 25 Sky Insurance files, between August and December, 2020.
The hacker, who has no previous convictions, admitted two counts of unauthorised computer access with intent to commit fraud.
He was jailed for eight months.
James Ross
James Ross stabbed his dad in the face after mental health services repeatedly missed the severity of his condition.
His father Michael pleaded with him to stop and told him he loved him during the attack with a vegetable knife at their home in Thornton Hough.
Ross had been sent home from Arrowe Park Hospital just hours earlier with only a prescription after he was judged not to need further help.
The 25-year-old had been living in Liverpool on his own but called his parents for help with his mental health a week before the attack.
He made numerous attempts to get support through his GP and at hospitals in Liverpool and Wirral - even begging police to arrest him.
On October 31 last year he stabbed his dad in the head, face and neck, who has fortunately recovered well, after extensive treatment.
Doctors later diagnosed Ross with schizophrenia, post traumatic stress disorder and features of Asperger's syndrome.
Ross, of previous good character, admitted wounding with intent and was made subject to a hospital order.
Merseyside Police said they did not have his mugshot.
Scott Whitehead
Scott Whitehead called a judge a "k***head" when he was jailed for a vicious drunken assault on his girlfriend.
The 27-year-old forced his way into his "on-off" partner's home in Eccleston, St Helens, after a night of heavy drinking in September this year.
He then launched the unprovoked attack, when he punched, kicked and pulled the hair of his victim, who suffered a broken nose.
Whitehead admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm to the woman, who the ECHO chose not to name, and also criminal damage.
The thug, of Peter Street, St Helens, has past convictions including assaulting an emergency worker.
He was jailed for two years.
Carl Jardine and Lucy Riley
Carl Jardine burst into a stranger's home and pretended to be a police officer in an attack which left a man with lifelong injuries.
Jardine, 32, forced his way into the 23-year-old man’s home on Victoria Street in Ellesmere Port claiming to be 'police' on December 1, 2019.
He was accompanied by Wesley Sherlock, 27, of St Marys Street in Wallasey, who earlier this year was sentenced to 12 years for robbery and hitting the victim in the face with a gin glass.
The heavily bleeding victim was made to lie on the floor with hands behind his back, while his watch was stolen from his wrist and his house was ransacked.
Jardine and Sherlock were seen on CCTV footage running away from the property. with stolen items including a games console, designer handbag and watch.
Waiting for the pair in a black BMW was Lucy Riley, 26, of Corporation Road in Birkenhead, who drove them away from the scene.
Jardine, of Wright Street in Egremont, admitted robbery and was jailed for 10 years.
Riley was found guilty of robbery after a trial and jailed for four years.
William Beardmore
William Beardmore sent thousands of pounds to help his knife thug brother run an illicit business behind bars.
The 28-year-old sent the cash to Chance Beardmore, 23, who was jailed in 2017 for a cowardly knife attack.
Chance stabbed a 17-year-old boy in the back three times while "showing off" to his gang mates in Neston, Wirral.
William sent £6,849 to his brother, while Chance was serving a six-year prison sentence at HMP Northumberland.
Chance used the money - sent over 12 months in 2019 and 2020 - to buy mobile phones and alcohol.
William, of New Chester Road in Rock Ferry, said he did it because he was put under pressure and "loved his brother".
He admitted one count of concealing criminal property and was jailed for 10 months.
Mihai-Catalin Gulie and Gabriela Ion
Gabriela Ion could have saved her murdered baby from a "devil" dad but covered up his abuse.
Mihai-Catalin Gulie violently shook six-month-old Robert Ion when his wife Ion went out to a shop with their daughter.
The 28-year-old left vulnerable Robert - who had Down's Syndrome - with a broken skull and irreversible brain injury.
Robert was taken to hospital on February 18 this year, where he died three days later and doctors discovered signs of past abuse.
Woman beater Gulie previously inflicted another brain injury and two broken ribs to his son at the couple's Mersey Road, Widnes home.
Ion, 35, witnessed that attack, but prison phone calls and Google searches revealed she hid Robert's bruises with toothpaste and an onion.
Gulie was found guilty of murder and Ion convicted of allowing the death of the child after a harrowing 14-day trial.
The dad was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years, while his wife was jailed for three years.
Nicholas Gillinder
Nicholas Gillinder sexually assaulted a vulnerable woman with a mental age of just 13.
The 51-year-old sent sexually explicit texts to the woman, who was in her twenties and had autism and learning difficulties.
The pervert - who worked in the care sector - also touched the victim inappropriately, as he took advantage of her limited capacity.
The married man kissed and cuddled the woman, who suffered "substantial psychological harm" and has "vivid nightmares" of him.
Gillinder, of Hart Street, Southport, admitted three offences which involved sexual activity with a vulnerable woman.
He was jailed for 21 months.
Roy Rogers
Predatory pensioner Roy Rogers took vile sexual photographs of a vulnerable schoolgirl.
His behaviour came to light after the victim, who has learning difficulties, told a teacher he had naked photos of her.
The girl had begged the 71-year-old, of Croyde Road, Speke, to return the indecent images in a text exchange.
The paedophile refused, saying "they are special to me", told her she had "the best t**s in all of Liverpool", and said he was her "boyfriend".
He also used Samsung 'Galaxy Wearable' software to turn some of the images into watch faces to be used on a Samsung smart watch.
Rogers admitted 12 offences involving engaging in sexual communication with a child, sexual activity with a child, and downloading, taking and possessing indecent images of children.
He was jailed for three years.
Andrew Webb and Thomas Penrith
Heroin dealer Andrew Webb 'hid' guns in an open suitcase, a court was told.
Webb first came to the attention of police when they stopped him in his Range Rover Evoque in Huyton.
The 46-year-old assaulted an officer and made off on foot, before police found half a kilo of heroin nearby.
Enquiries revealed a Range Rover Vogue, registered to his partner in crime, Thomas Penrith, 34, had also been in the area.
That car was spotted in Shop Road, Knowsley Village, with Webb and Penrith standing next to it, when they were arrested.
Inside a nearby property officers discovered an open suitcase with three guns and a large quantity of drugs and cash.
A further firearm was recovered from Webb's home in Shop Road.
He was found guilty of four counts of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life, possessing ammunition with intent to endanger life and possessing cannabis with intent to supply. Webb admitted conspiracy to supply heroin.
Penrith, of Meyrick Road, Croxteth, was found guilty of three counts of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and admitted the heroin plot.
The men were each jailed for 25 years.
Kieron Boyd
Paedophile Kieron Boyd broke down and begged for help from police for his "attraction to children" after he was snared in an online sting.
The 37-year-old, of Cunliffe Close, Palacefields, Runcorn, was initially arrested after trying to groom a "14-year-old girl" via social media.
The girl, "Darcy", was actually a "decoy", who led officers to discover vile indecent images of children on Boyd's Samsung phone and Kindle Fire tablet.
Boyd, who has breached Sexual Offence Prevention Orders six times in the past, admitted to sick chats in June and July this year.
He admitted attempting to cause a child to engage in sexual activity, to engage in sexual communication with a child, and to meet a child following grooming.
Boyd also pleaded guilty to three counts of downloading and one count of possessing indecent images of children; one count of possessing prohibited images of children; and one count of possessing extreme porn.
He was jailed for five years, with an extended three years on licence.
Anthony Halliwell
Anthony Halliwell assaulted a woman when he stole £100 of towels from a Matalan store in St Helens.
The 25-year-old, of Phoenix Brow, St Helens struck at the shop on Watts Clift Way on Thursday, November 11.
He pushed a staff member out of the way as he ran out of the shop, causing her to fall and bang her head.
Halliwell managed to escape but was later identified on CCTV footage by community police officers.
He was jailed for 18 weeks after being found guilty of assault and theft.
Paul While
Paul While who once shot himself in the foot has been jailed for firearms offences.
The 32-year-old had been out of prison for just 30 days when he was arrested after a police surveillance team watched him collect a shotgun in Knotty Ash.
While, of Glen Way, Tower Hill, Kirkby, was released from jail in August this year, after being recalled to prison after being arrested over a shooting.
On September 2, he was seen picking up a sawn-off shotgun at a property in East Prescot Road and officers moved in to arrest him.
He ran from the house and threw a bag containing the gun over a fence into a neighbouring garden and smashed his phone on the ground.
While admitted possessing a shotgun when prohibited for life, possessing a shotgun without a certificate and possessing prohibited ammunition.
He was jailed for four years.
Aziel Sweeney
Aziel Sweeney left a teacher with a bleed on the brain after punching him in an alcohol-fuelled attack over a dropped mobile phone.
He knocked Stanley Partington to the ground after the two men bumped into each other just off Lord Street in Southport, causing Sweeney to drop his phone.
The 30-year-old left the music teacher with bleeding in and around his brain after he fell back and hit his head on the pavement following a punch to the face.
Minutes later, Sweeney assaulted Mr Partington's friend Seamus Riley and two passers-by who tried to stop the violence, in the early hours of September 25.
The victim has still not been able to go back to work because his vision and memory have been affected and he suffers from headaches and mood swings.
Sweeney, of Bath Street, Southport, admitted wounding, assault causing actual bodily harm and two counts of common assault.
The thug, who has has 14 previous convictions for violence, was jailed for four years, with an extended two years on licence.
Elliot Troy
Elliot Troy raped a boy when he himself was still a child by making him take part in "rude games".
The 24-year-old, formerly of Crosby, sobbed when he appeared in court to be sentenced over vile sexual offences in his past.
He was found guilty after a trial of three counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Troy, of Carr Lane East, Croxteth, was aged between 11 and 15 during the offences, while his victim was aged between nine and 12.
He began the sexual abuse when he was six or seven - below the age of criminal responsibility - and the victim was only three or four.
When he reached 11 Troy orally raped the boy on at least four occasions and at the age of 15 - when his victim was 12 - he raped him.
Troy was jailed for four years and nine months.
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