This list includes 10 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
One judge sentenced a rapist who blamed his sex attack on a rare medical condition.
Courts heard about an ex-boyfriend who broke his former partner's skull after a chance encounter and a child rapist who finally faced justice after two decades.
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One judge sentenced a pickpocket who selected vulnerable girls and women as his victims in a series of shameful thefts.
Drug dealers who blighted communities with crack cocaine, heroin and cocaine were locked up.
Meanwhile, other disturbing cases included a predatory rapist who targeted women in the city centre and a rapist who started abusing children when he was just seven.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past week.
David Davies
David Davies raped three children and got away with it for more than two decades.
The 43-year-old was finally jailed this week after being found guilty of raping children as young as six.
He sexually abused two young boys between 1994 and 1997, before abusing a little girl between 1997 and 1998.
Davies was only 15 when he started his abuse, while two of his victims were six when it began and the third was nine.
The parents of one victim went to the police shortly after being told by their child that Davies had attacked them, but he wasn't charged at the time.
It was only when one of his two other victims reported him two years ago that an investigation led to him being charged for a slew of sex offences.
Davies cried as was jailed for 10 years and nine months, with an extended five years on licence.
Kyle Brook
A young woman was found bleeding heavily from her ear after bumping into her ex-boyfriend on a night out.
Kyle Brook, 26, brutally assaulted his ex-girlfriend, Jodie Taylor, fracturing her skull and causing a bleed on the brain.
Brook launched a brutal attack on his former partner after she attempted to stop him from driving after drinking, when she came across him in March 2020.
In a previous attack on Miss Taylor in August 2018, he squeezed her neck until she feared she would pass out, after she refused to take off her pyjamas in bed.
Brook, of Warrington Road, Glazebury, Warrington, was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm, assault causing actual bodily harm and criminal damage.
He was jailed for three years.
Janath Gul Jardarkhail
Janath Gul Jardarkhail dragged a woman into bushes and raped her in a park before abducting another woman months later.
He attacked two women almost six months apart in brutal sexual assaults in Chavasse Park and Wood Street in Liverpool city centre.
A judge told the 21-year-old he believed he used his position as a low level drug dealer to search for vulnerable women to attack at night.
Jardarkhail attacked his first victim in Chavasse Park in July 2019 and his second in Wood Street in January 2020.
He was caught after swabs from his victims matched his DNA, taken when he was arrested for supplying cannabis.
Jardarkhail, of County Road, Walton, admitted two counts of rape and possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
He was jailed for 12 years, with an extended five years on licence.
George Marsh
EncroChat dealer George Marsh 's international crime network was destroyed by personal messages he sent to his contacts.
The Wirral crook - who had contacts in Portugal, Spain and Germany - shared details about his birthday and the dates of his father's death and funeral.
The insight into his life allowed detectives to match the messages of EncroChat codenames "SneakyStem" and "WackySilver" to the 33-year-old.
He was brought down by an investigation that led to police storming his home on Park Road North in Birkenhead, as well as two container units in the town, in June, when they seized a Rolex watch and £82,000 in cash.
Marsh was linked to the distribution of 25 kilos of cocaine, 110 kilos of cannabis and one kilo of ketamine.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply each of the drugs and was jailed for 16 years.
Alan Tyson
Alan Tyson who raped a sleeping woman claimed he was also asleep at the time.
He claimed he had sexsomnia, a sleep disorder and recognised medical condition, which causes people to engage in sexual activity while asleep.
The dad-of-three argued in a trial that this meant he could not have the intent required to commit rape, but a jury found him guilty.
His victim didn't know Tyson but was a friend of another resident at a house in Wirral, where the attack took place in August 2019.
She had been invited there for drinks and, after a few hours of drinking, became unwell and went to sleep on a camp bed in the living room.
Tyson was in the room playing video games and she woke to find him putting his hands in her mouth and pinching her nose, so she went upstairs.
He followed her and also tried to get in a bed next to her, despite her protests, and hours later she woke to find him raping her.
Tyson, of Ladyfield, Prenton, denied any sexual contact with her and only admitted it after DNA evidence forced him to change his story.
He was jailed for seven years.
Emil Postolache
A predatory pickpocket targeted schoolgirls, young mums out shopping and lone women on nights out.
Emil Postolache served time for robbery in his native Romania before going on a continental crime spree.
The 34-year-old was repeatedly caught thieving in Germany, Spain and Belgium - then moved to the UK.
The serial thief stole from vulnerable victims across Liverpool, leaving many of them shocked and traumatised.
Postolache, of Gresham Street, Fairfield, targeted 13 victims in total between March and August this year.
He admitted four counts of theft, one count of attempted theft, and one count of fraud, and asked for eight further thefts to be taken into consideration.
Postolache was jailed for two years.
John Lawless
A former footballer who played in the Champions League against Liverpool became a prolific county lines drug dealer.
John Lawless was a promising young talent from Croxteth, who starred for local sides Marine FC, Burscough and Vauxhall Motors.
Playing for Welsh champions The New Saints FC (TNS), he faced then European Champions Liverpool at Anfield in 2005.
The 39-year-old later managed Prestatyn Town in North Wales.
However, he led a double life as one of Hull's most prolific drug dealers, flooding the city with crack cocaine and heroin.
The dad-of-six was part of a "Scouse J" gang who became one of Humberside Police's top targets.
He admitted possessing crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply and being concerned in the supply of both Class A drugs.
Lawless was jailed for seven years.
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.
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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