US EditionLiverpool parade driver ploughed into crowds 'in a rage', prosecutors say ahead of sentencing
Paul Doyle injured 134 Liverpool fans during title celebrations, with 50 hospitalized, after deliberately driving into crowds, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
- On Monday, Paul Doyle is due to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court over two days after pleading guilty to 31 criminal charges last month.
- On May 26, the 54-year-old left a Liverpool suburb cul-de-sac in a Ford Galaxy Titanium amid hundreds of thousands of fans celebrating Liverpool's Premier League victory.
- Doyle drove for seven minutes, striking people with the nearly two-tonne vehicle; 134 injured, 50 requiring hospital treatment, including 29 victims aged six months to 77 years and a six-month-old baby.
- Judge Andrew Menary warned Paul Doyle to prepare for a custodial sentence of some length and noted the maximum penalty for the most serious offences is life imprisonment.
- The prosecutors planned to submit dashcam footage showing Doyle lose his temper, and Merseyside Police said the incident was not terrorism, with a man pushing the gear into park to stop the vehicle.
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A man who drove his car through crowds of Liverpool supporters, injuring more than 130 people, told police he had panicked, but a court has heard he had simply lost his temper. Paul Doyle, 54, used his vehicle 'as a weapon' after becoming frustrated with street closures following the club's Premier League title celebration in May. Prosecutors told Liverpool Crown Court on Monday that Doyle's initial claims of being scared were false. Dashcam foo…
Man who drove into Liverpool FC parade was ‘in a rage’, court told
A court has heard that the driver who ploughed into more than 100 people celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League title win was “in a rage” and “anger had completely taken hold of him”. Paul Doyle sobbed as victims of his rampage described the pain and trauma they’ve suffered, in statements read on their behalf at his sentencing hearing.
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