These are the faces of 13 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
One judge had to sentence a convicted rapist who beheaded his son's beloved pet rabbit then hurled the animal's head at his ex-girlfriend.
Courts heard about teen thugs who slashed two brothers with machetes at Liverpool Lime Street Station and a robbery gang who raided a family's home and stole their puppies.
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Another judge had to sentence a former children's entertainer who has been exposed as a sick paedophile.
Judges dealt with a woman beating thug who issued vile threats to his former partner and a dad who claimed he dealt crack cocaine and heroin so his wife and children's home wasn't petrol bombed.
Meanwhile, they had to sentence a gun thug who took part in a shooting on the orders of a notorious gangland boss.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past week.
Owen Harris
Owen Harris knocked his girlfriend out when he pushed her over and she smashed her face on a loose window sill tile.
The 24-year-old was paranoid about what the young mum was doing on her phone and shoved her, causing her to fall.
She required plastic surgery to repair a cut to her lip and remains impacted by the injury, which has left a scar on her face.
Harris, of Evington, Skelmersdale, fled her home after the attack on November 6 last year, before handing himself into police three days later.
The thug, who admitted wounding, has 12 previous convictions including battery and possessing an imitation firearm in public.
He was jailed for eight months, but Lancashire Police refused to release his mugshot.
Billy Rutter
Billy Rutter killed his son's pet rabbit and threw the severed head at his ex-girlfriend before trying to cook the pet.
The 33-year-old crept into the woman's Birkenhead home as she slept upstairs with their two young children.
Rutter killed the beloved pet at around 5am and went upstairs to inform the sleeping mum, who didn't believe him.
He then threw the severed head at her, which landed on her pillow, and she went to try and get help from neighbours.
When she returned she discovered he was trying to cook the rabbit in the oven because he "didn't want to waste it".
She fled and called police on February 20 this year and when officers arrived, her son repeatedly said: "I miss my bunny."
Rutter admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, common assault and breaching a restraining order.
The thug, of Rufford Road, Wallasey, who has 18 previous convictions for 36 offences, was jailed for 15 months.
Bailey Doyle and Kyle Kearney
Bailey Doyle and Kyle Kearney slashed two brothers with machetes at Liverpool Lime Street Station in front of terrified passengers.
Doyle, 17, and Kearney, 18, attacked the 20-year-old and the 16-year-old siblings in a chance meeting during an ongoing "feud".
Shocking CCTV footage showed the pair pull two machetes from an orange shopping bag carried by Kearney on a train from Rock Ferry.
Horrified passengers fled from the train, as did the youngest victim, who shouted "he's trying to kill me!" on Friday, March 19 this year.
Kearney chased the 20-year-old, slashing him, before the victim fell out of the train onto the platform, and Doyle slashed him again.
The 20-year-old victim needed 28 stitches for wounds to his head, arms and body, and suffered fractures to one of his arms.
His 16-year-old brother also suffered fractures to his arm.
Doyle, of Fletcher Avenue, Rock Ferry, and Kearney, of Old Chester Road, Rock Ferry, both admitted two counts of wounding with intent and having a bladed article.
Doyle was previously locked up for two years and four months for wounding in 2019, after he stabbed a victim in the face with a screwdriver.
He was locked up for nine years and four months, with an extended four years on licence.
Kearney, who confessed to being a County Lines drug courier, has no previous convictions.
He was locked up for eight years.
Michael Monks
Former children's entertainer Michael Monks kept asking girls to send naked and semi-naked pictures of themselves to him.
He asked who he thought was a 13-year-old child to lift her skirt and take a photo before sending videos of himself performing sex acts.
Despite having been snared by paedophile hunters in the past, the 41-year-old was duped again, this time by an undercover police officer.
The former DJ was jailed for two and a half years in 2017 after asking another decoy profile - also pretending to be a 13-year-old girl - for sex and suggesting they stay the night at a hotel or bed and breakfast.
But the dad was once again caught out in April this year, this time on Kik Messenger while using the names 'AnfieldGuy' and 'MikeLeon'.
Monks, of Richmond Terrace, Anfield, was arrested at a builder's yard where he worked on April 17 and later admitted breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and attempting to cause a child to watch sexual activity.
He was jailed for two years and nine months.
Lewis Prendergast, Stephen Prendergast, Anthony Ainsworth and a teenage boy
A gang armed with machetes and a fake gun stormed a family's home to steal their puppies.
Stephen Prendergast, 43, Lewis Prendergast, 24, Anthony Ainsworth, 22, and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, burst into the house in Old Swan.
They demanded cash, threatened a couple and their newborn baby, then left with six American Bulldogs and a Volkswagen Golf parked outside.
The car and the dogs were later recovered and the occupants weren't harmed, but they were left "extremely shaken" by the ordeal in Derwent Road West, at around 2.25pm, on Sunday, October 18, 2020.
At around 3.45pm the same day, Matrix armed police were in the area searching for the offenders and spotted their Ford Focus at the junction of Sheil Road and Kensington.
The gang made off towards Newsham Park but the two Prendergasts were caught before Ainsworth and the teenager were also arrested.
Stephen Prendergast, of Deane Road, Old Swan, was jailed for 10 years and nine months for conspiracy to commit robbery, having an imitation firearm with intent to commit an offence and having a bladed article.
Lewis Prendergast, of Bedford Street South, Kensington was jailed for nine years and nine months for conspiracy to commit robbery and having a bladed article.
Ainsworth, of Edinburgh Road, Old Swan, was jailed for 10 years and nine months for conspiracy to commit robbery.
The boy, from Old Swan, was locked up for four years and two months for conspiracy to commit robbery and possessing an offensive weapon.
Kieran Salkeld
Kieran Salkeld was jailed yet again for breaching the terms of a gang injunction.
The 27-year-old, of St Oswalds Avenue, Beechwood, was caught using a mobile phone which he hadn't declared to the authorities.
Salkeld was also found to have breached the court order by flouting conditions not to associate with certain people.
The gang injunction was originally issued on May 13, 2019 because Salkeld and other gang members were terrorising Wirral.
He was previously locked up in September 2020 for 168 days for breaching the terms of the injunction.
That was after previously managing to dodge a jail sentence for dangerous driving and a nightclub brawl after claiming his partner who worked in the NHS would lose her job if he was jailed.
Salkeld was jailed for 22 weeks.
Leon Rix
Leon Rix was caught driving with cocaine worth up to £142,900 under the seat of his car.
His Vauxhall Astra was stopped by Cheshire Police on Rocksavage Expressway in Runcorn shortly after noon on Wednesday, June 2.
Police discovered a kilo block of cocaine hidden under the driver’s seat, with an estimated street value of between £42,870 and £142,900.
They also found a baton in the glove compartment.
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A Cheshire Police spokesman said Rix denied being a dealer and claimed he was moving the drugs for someone else.
He admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply and possessing an offensive weapon.
Rix, 28, of Browning Drive, Great Sutton, Ellesmere Port, was jailed for three and a half years.
Patrick Garrett
Patrick Garrett told a vulnerable mum he would slash her face and "stab her up and snap her chin".
He was in a relationship with the woman, who the ECHO chose not to name, for around 18 months.
But when it ended last December he launched violent attacks and sent sinister messages and voicemails for weeks.
Garrett, of Coniston Street, Anfield, squeezed her throat in an attack at her home in Wavertree on December 20.
On Boxing Day he smashed a side window at her home and warned: "Your time will come kid, f***ing getting slashed to pieces."
On January 1, he attacked her at a house in Wavertree, when he headbutted her to the face, punched her in the head and grabbed her neck.
Garrett, who has 28 previous convictions for 55 offences, later admitted harassment and two counts of common assault.
He was jailed for 15 months.
Kelvin Fyles
Kelvin Fyles claimed he dealt crack cocaine and heroin so his wife and children's home wasn't petrol bombed.
The dad-of-two said he was acting on the orders of a "loan shark" when police caught him peddling Class A drugs for the "first time".
He insisted he had "no choice" when he fell behind with repayments after borrowing money to buy his children Christmas presents.
A judge accepted this account, but jailed Fyles despite his fears of being sent to a woman's jail, after living as a male since the age of eight.
Fyles, 34, of Spellow Lane, Walton, was caught in a black Ford Focus parked in Kingsland Crescent, Norris Green, on October 22 last year.
He had a food bag containing 24 wraps of heroin and 45 wraps of crack cocaine, worth £690 in total, plus a mobile phone and £140 in cash.
Fyles admitted possessing crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply.
He was jailed for 18 months.
Kevin Bernard
A teenager's life was ruined on his 19th birthday when Kevin Bernard doing nearly 90mph smashed into his car.
Lee Baxter was heading to a party at his mum's house with two young friends in his blue Ford Fiesta.
They were hit by Bernard's black Audi S3 as he sped along 30mph Southport Road in Bootle at 86mph.
The teenager suffered multiple injuries including brain damage and was left fighting for his life in a coma.
The now 22-year-old "had to learn how to breathe, talk, walk and eat" again after the crash on June 16, 2018.
Bernard, 43, of Riversdale Road, Aigburth, denied causing serious injury by dangerous driving but skipped his trial.
After being found guilty in his absence he was sentenced to six years in prison, despite still being at large.
He had admitted four counts of fraud relating to obtaining car insurance without declaring his penalty points and convictions.
Andrew Johannessen
Andrew Johannessen and Lewis Sinclair shot at a rival's home and riddled his front door and windows with six bullets on the orders of one of the UK's most wanted criminals - Leon Cullen.
The two men were part of the plot which saw thugs open fire at the address on behalf of the fugitive gang boss from Warrington - now jailed for 22 and a half years after going on the run in Dubai.
The attack happened on Hilden Street in Bolton, when Johannessen, of Gaskell Street, St Helens, teamed up with Sinclair, from Partington, Greater Manchester, and a third man, Shawn O'Malley, from Orford, Warrington.
On September 9, 2019, they travelled from Warrington, then to St Helens and on to the target address in Bolton in a stolen Mercedes.
Johannessen, 38, had carried out reconnaissance missions at the scene, which was later easily tracked by the electronic tag he was wearing.
He and Sinclair pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
They had also admitted conspiracy to commit burglaries in August and September 2019, having broken into lockers at David Lloyd gyms around the country in order to steal car keys and other items.
The two men were each jailed for 12 years, with an extended 27 months on licence.
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