This list includes 16 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
One judge had to sentence a vicious boyfriend who battered his vulnerable partner to death then went to buy drugs.
Another judge dealt with a mum who sped at nearly 60mph through a red light and put a little girl in a coma.
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Courts heard about a husband who stabbed his wife in the neck after dropping their twins off at school and a jealous boyfriend who knocked out six of his girlfriend's teeth.
Judges sentenced a drug smuggler who used his children as cover and a thieving paramedic who pinched defibrillators from ambulances.
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 week.
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.
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