A thug who kidnapped and tortured his girlfriend, a man who brawled in the street with his dad using weapons and a man who left his friend needing metal plates in his face were among the Merseyside criminals jailed this week.
Also locked up was a BMW driver who smashed his car into the bedroom of a 92-year-old's bungalow, leaving her seriously injured. Meanwhile, Liverpool Crown Court heard that a paedophile began distributing indecent images online only months after being released from prison.
Here are the faces of six criminals who were imprisoned in our region in the past week:
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Michael Vose
The thug deliberately crashed his car into a bungalow where an elderly woman was sleeping.
Michael Vose crashed into Edna Kearns' home in a suicide attempt following a row with his girlfriend. The 40-year-old, from St Helens, got behind the wheel after she called the police regarding the row, which saw him attempt to throttle her before punching a hole in the wall and damaging a wardrobe mirror.
He told his partner that he was going to kill himself before he took off in the BMW, driving over a mini-roundabout and later smashing through a fence and into the house in Westhoughton, Bolton. Vose smashed through the wall and into the 92-year-old's bedroom, hitting her bed and leaving her with two fractured ankles and severe cuts to her legs.
Mrs Kearns died less than five months after the crash but, according to expert evidence, there was no link between the smash and her death. The driver admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of criminal damage and causing serious injury by dangerous driving and was jailed for four years.
Lewis Dunn
The thug tried to Facetime his girlfriend's dad to make him watch as he tortured her.
Lewis Dunn burnt his partner with cigarettes, stabbed her and threatened to cut her toes off in a nightmare ordeal. The 27-year-old's victim ran then through the streets in her pyjamas in order to escape her captor before hiding in a bin.
He held the 21-year-old against her will after calling her mum threatening: "I'll get some smackheads to come up and burn your house down. I'll stab you up."
She suffered 23 separate injuries at Dunn's hands after he consumed a cocktail of cocaine and alcohol. He admitted offences including false imprisonment and inflicting grievous bodily harm and was jailed for six years and eight months.
Paul Riley
A paedophile began distributing indecent images online months after being released from prison.
Paul Riley collected hundreds of sick pictures and videos of young children being raped and shared his vile stash with other perverts over the Kik messaging service. The dad had only recently been freed from a lengthy jail term for couriering heroin and crack cocaine in a £1.6million plot.
The horrific images involved children aged as young as five, while one 12-second film showed a six-year-old being raped. He had been released from a 40-month stretch in January 2021, only to begin accessing the photographs and movies online in May - then sharing them with other perverted individuals from June onwards.
The family man's home was raided by police in August last year. Riley admitted three counts of distributing indecent images, possession of extreme pornographic images, possession of indecent images and three charges of making indecent images and was jailed for two years.
Jack Roach
A dad and his son grabbed golf clubs and baseball bats as they fought two brothers on a quiet street.
Horrified neighbours watched as David and Jack Roach and Brendan and Michael Kennedy waged a bizarre brawl against each other in Woodchurch last year. The disorder, which apparently stemmed from an allegation of bike theft, started after one of the Kennedy brothers arrived at the Roach family home with a metal bar before the situation escalated rapidly.
All four men appeared before a judge on Thursday but only the youngest, 19-year-old Jack Roach, was sent to jail. His previous convictions for carrying weapons meant he was locked up for 11 months.
Callum Taylor-Greensmith
The thug filmed himself launching a sickening attack on a friend before showing footage of the attack to horrified members of the public.
Callum Taylor-Greensmith subjected David Hughes to a horrendous assault in Wirral last year before gloating to people at a caravan park which both men's families frequently visited. The attack left the victim requiring plates to be inserted into his head.
Mr Hughes was targeted after the two men had been drinking together over the weekend of the Champions League final before Taylor-Greensmith kicked him multiple times in the head. The court heard that the complainant cannot remember much of the assault, instead waking up on the floor of his living room in a pool of blood.
It then emerged Taylor-Greensmith had filmed the attack on his phone then went to the nearby caravan park and showed it to people in the clubhouse. The 22-year-old was jailed for four years and six month.
Anthony Atherton
A burglar was linked to a £500 meat raid on a Marks and Spencer branch after leaving his blood behind in the store.
Serial offender Anthony Atherton "fell back into his old ways" and broke into the shop in his desperation to feed his drug habit following the break-up of the dad-of-two's family. Less than a week later, the 38-year-old smashed his way through a Starbucks drive-thru with a hammer and dragged female baristas around by their hair.
He targeted M&S Foodhall on Queens Drive overnight on October 11 last year. The court was played footage from the closed shop in West Derby, which showed Atherton approaching in a bobble hat, putting a pair of gloves on and throwing a rock at the storefront three times in order to smash the window.
The premises had to remain shut until 11.30am the following day due to the damage caused by the break-in, which caused overall losses of £11,200 in goods stolen, a loss of trade and damage.
Atherton admitted burglary and was handed 12 months behind bars.
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