These are the faces of 10 people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
One judge sentenced a paedophile who blamed his sick crimes on an alter ego called 'Alex'.
Courts heard about two EncroChat dealers who supplied vast amounts of drugs around the country using the secret phone network.
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Another judge had to sentence a 'scumbag' burglar caught hiding in a child's bedroom, while another judge dealt with a dangerous yob who squirted petrol at two random doormen.
Meanwhile, disturbing cases included a sexual predator who befriended a teenage boy, a child rapist who was finally brought to justice and an upskirt pervert who also filmed women in toilets.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past week.
Paul Dutton
Sexual predator Paul Dutton begged for forgiveness after his victim told him: "You are a danger to society and deserve to be in cells."
The 61-year-old sexually abused a teenage boy, leaving the vulnerable child "a broken person" suffering from anxiety and depression.
He hung his head in shame when faced by the brave victim in court, sitting with his devastated mum in the area normally reserved for a jury.
After crying his way through the boy's heartbreaking victim statement, the pervert had the gall to say he was "sorry" as he was sent down.
Dutton, of Cotswold Grove, St Helens, befriended the boy by offering him advice and support, then molested him.
He admitted three counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, two counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and three counts of sexual activity with a child.
Dutton was jailed for three years.
Mathew Badibanga
Mathew Badibanga used the EncroChat nickname "Bagbangboomboom" to make "vast profits" using the encrypted phone service.
He supplied large quantities of cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines around the country and was arrested in September last year.
The 34-year-old, who also interchanged the spelling of his surname to "Badibango", was detained by detectives after a series of raids in Formby and another in Whiston, which led to him being taken into custody.
The dealer, of Manorwood Drive, Whiston, was jailed for 12 years after pleading guilty to four counts of supplying the drugs.
Joseph Gibson
Joseph Gibson was kicked out of a nightclub then squirted petrol at two random doormen.
Bouncers asked the 30-year-old to leave city centre bar 54 Liverpool in the early hours of the morning on Monday, June 21 this year.
Drunken Gibson walked all the way to a BP garage in Toxteth, where he filled up a plastic bottle with petrol, then headed to Mathew Street.
There the "irrational" confrontation with doormen unconnected to the earlier incident unfolded, as he held a lighter, flicking it in his other hand.
A judge branded him "a danger to the public" after watching CCTV footage of his "troubling" behaviour, which happened at around 1.15am.
He admitted affray after prosecutors dropped two counts of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent to cause it.
Gibson, of Gresham Street, Fairfield, who has 26 previous convictions for 54 offences, was jailed for 12 months.
Mark Dewhurst
Mark Dewhurst pretended to be a businessman buying an engagement ring for his girlfriend in order to dupe staff.
He told a shop assistant in Beaverbrooks he'd sold his business in Spain and was using the money to buy a gold diamond ring for his partner.
But this was a lie and all part of his "reconnaissance" mission to scout out the store in St John's Precinct and gain the woman's trust.
When the 55-year-old returned the next day, he snatched two diamond rings and a diamond bracelet worth £26,500 in total.
Dewhurst, of James Close, Widnes, first examined the gold jewellery at the Liverpool city centre branch on August 30, 2019.
He returned and stole it on August 31, leaving frightened staff feeling "shocked and upset".
Dewhurst, who admitted theft, has 12 previous convictions for 23 offences, including robbery.
He was jailed for two years and one month.
Terrence Ryan
Paedophile Terrence Ryan who considered himself "untouchable" was finally jailed more than 50 years after he began preying on little boys.
The child rapist, now 77, sexually assaulted a young boy in the early 1960s and would go on to abuse three more children until the late 2000s.
The pensioner, of Austral Avenue, Woolston, Warrington, came to the attention of police after one of his victims bravely came forward to Northumbria Police.
Ryan was arrested and denied the allegations but later admitted 14 counts of historical child sexual abuse, including sexual touching, engaging in sexual activity with a child, inciting sexual activity with a child, and rape.
He was jailed for 14 years and eight months.
Alan Cotton
A woman arrived home to find "scumbag" burglar Alan Cotton hiding in her child's bedroom.
After discovering the 50-year-old in her home, the woman started filming on her mobile phone as she chased him out of the property and then out of the grounds too.
At one point in the clip, Cotton stopped to mumble: "Sorry, I’ve had a couple of cans and gone the wrong way."
But the victim caught his face on camera, blasted him for "hiding in a child's bedroom" and called him a "scumbag".
The incident took place at a house on Hobb Lane in Moore, near Runcorn, on Saturday, July 17 this year.
Cotton, of Fallowfield, Runcorn, admitted aggravated burglary and was jailed for seven and a half years.
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith who filmed people on the toilet at Creamfields was caught after a woman spotted his phone peeping over a pub cubicle door.
The 39-year-old pervert, of Pickerings Close, Runcorn, also filmed teenage girls getting changed at a theatre, as well as up schoolgirls' skirts.
But the woman spotted his hand holding a phone above her at a pub and she ran out and kicked in the door of the cubicle he was in to confront him, before Smith fled and was stopped by doormen.
Police uncovered a shocking collection of secretly-filmed videos of adults and young girls stored on Smith's digital devices.
He admitted one count of voyeurism in relation to his adult victims, and one count each of possessing and making Category C indecent images of children - the latter two counts relating to the same eight covertly-captured clips of girls backstage at The Brindley Theatre and upskirt videos of girls.
Smith was jailed for two years.
Sean Moore
EncroChat drug dealer Sean Moore also sold Covid 19 testing kits as a sideline during lockdown.
The dad-of-three was exposed as a "wholesale" drug dealer behind the secret handles "TrustPilot" and "PrawnPilot".
The 43-year-old used the clandestine phone network to trade at least 12 kilos of cocaine and five kilos of heroin in just 10 weeks.
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But when EncroChat was hacked last year, his use of his own children's initials as passwords helped lead detectives to his door.
Police raided his home in Marley Close, Rainhill on June 16 last year and found rooms matched photos sent by Moore on EncroChat.
Moore, whose four previous convictions include a money laundering conspiracy, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and heroin, from April to June last year.
He was jailed for 12 years.
Adele O'Hara
Adele O'Hara shoplifted more than £8,000 of beauty products from Boots to feed her cocaine habit.
The mum-of-three struck at the Boots store at Aintree Retail Park nine times over a two-month period.
The 40-year-old was captured on CCTV stuffing large bags full of cosmetic items before fleeing the store.
But on the ninth occasion, a security guard caught her before she managed to escape in a waiting taxi.
O'Hara, of Stuart Road, Walton, stole £8,455 of goods in total between the end of January and the beginning of March this year.
The mum, who had got clean and stayed out of trouble for a decade but returned to her shoplifting past after becoming addicted to cocaine again, admitted eight counts of theft.
She was jailed for 20 months.
Matthew Prescott
Matthew Prescott claimed his images of children being raped were collected by one of his twisted alter egos.
The paedophile told a psychiatrist his latest stash of sickening pictures and video was not his responsibility, but that of 'Alex'.
Alex is one of five personalities the 27-year-old convicted sex offender said took over him, claiming: "Alex was just there for himself. I've tried to get rid of him so many times."
Prescott, of Cotham Street in St Helens, not only downloaded almost 2,000 videos and pictures, but also shared some of them.
His home was raided in June of last year, when the vile stash was discovered, before more sick photos were found on April 15 this year.
He admitted four counts of downloading, two counts of possessing and one count of distributing indecent images of children.
Prescott was jailed for two and a half years.
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