These are the faces of seven people locked up for crimes linked to Merseyside this past week.
One judge sentenced a machete-wielding teen who slashed a young mum's face open in front of her little girl in a vile racist attack.
Courts heard about a wannabe rapper who wrote lyrics about trying to "run down" a police officer and a gambling addict who betrayed a family beer company by stealing more than £800,000 from his employers.
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Another judge had to sentence a dad who dished out a savage beating to an alleged love rival in a "straightener" caught on CCTV.
One judge dealt with a pair of teenagers who battered a young man in Liverpool city centre "just for the sheer hell of it".
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded this past week.
John Lee
John Lee kept a sickening collection of child sex abuse images for three years.
The paedophile tax officer had a total of 4,781 indecent images of children, 134 of which were videos of children as young as two being raped.
The 43-year-old, who worked for HMRC for 20 years before being sacked, also shared 14 child sex abuse images on WhatsApp and Kik Messenger with a fellow pervert.
He told him he wanted to have sex with an 11-year-old girl he knew, and even sent him a picture of her.
The dad-of-two, of Dalemeadow Road, Knotty Ash, admitted three counts of downloading, one count of possessing and one count of distributing indecent images of children, between July 25, 2017 and May 21, 2020.
Lee was jailed for two years and eight months.
Tre Freeman
Tre Freeman repeatedly tried to hit a police officer with a car then later wrote rap lyrics about it.
Two officers tried to conduct a stop check on a black Vauxhall Astra, parked near Fox Covert Cemetery in Warrington, on October 31, 2020.
One officer went to speak with the driver, but the car "kept edging forward" towards him, and the victim had to jump out of the way.
The Astra then accelerated, striking vehicles before turning around, revving the engine and attempting to drive at the officer once again.
The car then struck a police vehicle and a wall before driving at the officer once more, then sped off, leading to a police chase.
Freeman, 19, of Green Leach Court in St Helens, was arrested after his DNA was later found in the car after it had been abandoned.
His home was raided on January 12, 2021, when notes were found to a rap song he had written about trying to "run down" the officer.
Freeman admitted attempting to cause grievous bodily harm, dangerous driving, driving without a license and insurance, and failing to stop.
He was jailed for three years and four months.
Joshua Johnson
Joshua Johnson threatened an Asda security guard with a knife after he was caught stealing.
He brandished the knife outside the Southport supermarket after a spree of thefts, in which police said he took Haribo and knives from a café.
The 25-year-old drug addict even stole a bicycle from a 14-year-old boy and also broke into a woman's Mercedes to take her spare change.
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He took the bike on March 31, targeted the car on April 2, burgled the Bridge Café on July 2, then the next night hit the Asda in Central 12 Shopping Park, where he lunged at the security guard with a kitchen knife.
Johnson, of Royal Terrace, Southport, who has 40 previous convictions for 82 offences, admitted two counts of theft, one count of intent to steal other than in a dwelling and one count of threatening a person with a blade in a public place.
Johnson was jailed for two years.
Keith Baker
Keith Baker delivered a "savage beating" to another man in a brutal street fight over an alleged love triangle.
The dad-of-one knocked down bloodied Adam Harvey five times in what Mr Harvey claimed was a "straightener".
The shocking brawl in Birkenhead was captured on camera by a laughing man before it was later shared online.
Baker, 32, even kicked his victim in the head while he was lying on the ground, despite pleas for him to stop the violence.
His lawyer said Mr Harvey went looking for Baker on November 6 last year, because he wrongly thought Baker had a relationship with his girlfriend.
A judge accepted Mr Harvey was the instigator, but said the "gratuitous" violence was unacceptable, "whatever the provocation".
Baker, 32, of Highfield Road, Rock Ferry, who has 24 previous convictions for 46 offences, admitted affray.
He was jailed for 10 months.
Ben Dolan
Ben Dolan betrayed a family beer company by stealing more than £800,000 while the firm struggled to stay afloat.
The dad-of-one, of Gondover Avenue, Orrell Park said he took the huge sum from Hops & Barley to fund his £1.2m gambling addiction.
But his devastated employers accused him of also splashing cash on a new house, "lavish wedding", trips to the races and Liverpool tickets.
The court heard he "brazenly" lied to their faces, while loyal staff from a workforce of 120 had to be made redundant thanks to his dishonesty.
Dolan was working as an "in-house accounts manager" and stole the money by creating false invoices and making payments to a private account of his own 128 times between March 23, 2017 and December 27, 2019, stealing £839,281 in total.
On January 7, 2020, a company director for the Anfield-based form asked Dolan about suspicious invoices and he eventually came clean.
Dolan, who had no previous convictions, admitted theft and was jailed for three and a half years.
Jack Geary
Jack Geary and Thomas Price battered a man in the street for no reason inflicting a broken skull and a bleed on his brain.
The two teenagers from North Wales set upon James Hansen in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of the morning.
They also broke his nose and eye socket with a flurry of unprovoked punches in Victoria Street, knocking him out cold.
The attack was caught on CCTV and nearly a year later, he has not regained some of his sense of taste and smell.
Geary, then 19, and Price, then 18, carried out the unprovoked attack on the 21-year-old, at around 4.15am, on August 24 last year.
Both Geary, now 20, of Coast Road, Mostyn, Holywell, and Price, now 19, of Coed Onn Road, Flint, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Geary has five past convictions for eight offences, including an affray in 2019, which at the time of this attack he was being investigated for.
He was locked up for 15 months.
Price, who has one previous conviction for an assault, was given 13 and a half months' detention, suspended for two years.
Kurtis Williams
Kurtis Williams slashed a mum's face with a machete in a racist attack in front of her little girl.
The boy, 15, repeatedly used the N-word as he made vile threats to harm Zakiya Janny's ex-boyfriend and their four-year-old daughter.
A witness said Williams' own mum shouted encouragement when the yob returned with a machete and yelled more racist abuse, including the N-word, at the mixed race family.
But when Ms Janny stood between Williams and her former partner, the teenager cut her left cheek open, from her ear to her jaw.
The now 16-year-old boy inflicted a 13cm long wound, which the 36-year-old housing worker said "destroyed" the life she knew.
The attack happened near her partner Francis O'Malley's home in Scorton Street, Anfield, at around 7.15pm, on April 13 this year.
Williams, of Rossett Street, Anfield, denied wounding with intent and possessing a blade, but admitted the charges on the opening day of a trial, accepting that they were motivated by "racial prejudice".
He was locked up for eight years.
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