Paul Doyle jailed for 21 years and six months for Liverpool title parade attack | OneFootball

Paul Doyle, 54, has been jailed for 21 years and six months for driving into crowds at Liverpool's Premier League title parade on 26 May, injuring 134 people.

According to yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk, he was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting 31 offences, including dangerous driving, affray, 17 attempted GBH with intent, nine causing GBH with intent and three wounding with intent, relating to 29 victims aged six months to 77.

Prosecutors said he flew into a rage, with dashcam capturing him shouting expletives and ordering people to move. Over about two minutes his Ford Galaxy, weighing nearly two tonnes, collided with well over 100 people, and they said he was prepared to cause serious harm, even to children, to get through.

On Tuesday the court heard victim statements, including from a mother whose pram carrying her six-month-old baby was struck. The youngest victim, six-month-old Teddy Eveson, was later said by his parents to have been thrown about 15 feet, and Doyle admitted attempting to cause GBH to him.

Mr Barr, who jumped into the car and put it into park for the final 16 seconds, said the incident dragged up trauma from his tours in Iraq. He described becoming angry and withdrawn since.

The court also heard Doyle was jailed in 1994 for biting off a man's ear, had a section 20 assault conviction and a military offence for violence to a superior officer. Prosecutor Paul Greaney KC noted efforts to live positively since 1995, which made May's events more shocking.

Source: yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk