Longest jail sentences passed by Liverpool Crown Court judges so far in 2021
Murderers, rapists, gun thugs and EncroChat drug dealers all feature in the list
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Dangerous criminals are sentenced every week at Liverpool Crown Court for a variety of crimes.
These include murderers who have committed what is considered the most serious offence of all - taking another person s life. Rapists and paedophiles are often brought to justice thanks to the bravery of their victims, who are left mentally scarred forever. Gun thugs who endanger lives, putting at risk the safety of innocent bystanders with firearms, are treated very seriously by the courts.
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An overview of the most serious cases linked to Merseyside over the last seven days
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L-R Heather McCarthy, Lee Knox and Victoria Webster
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Gang members who poured petrol over man and set him on fire jailed for more than 60 years
Gang members who murdered man by setting him on fire jailed for more than 60 years Three members of as gang who doused a man in petrol and set him on fire have been jailed for his murder. On Friday, the officers investigating the murder of Robert Beattie pledged to continue the search for two men that are still wanted in connection with the incident. The 48-year-old sadly died from his injuries two weeks after the attack – which came as a result of feuding gangs trying to instil fear and command their dominance in the drugs supply trade in Skelmersdale.
Three thugs who doused a vulnerable man in petrol and left him to burn alive in a brutal, horrendous and violent attack during a drugs turf war have been jailed for a total of almost 60 years.
Connah Jenkinson, 26, John O Brien, 33, and Joseph McEwan, 20, carried out the horrific assault and killed Robert Beattie as part of an ongoing feud between gangs.
The 48-year-old drug dealer was at his flat in Waverley in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, when he received a knock on his front door at around 1am on September 25, 2019.
When he answered a group of men barged into his flat and doused him and his apartment in petrol before lighting him on fire and fleeing the scene.