Liverpool Crown Court Sentencing Results

Przemyslaw Sliwinski assaulted his partner after an anniversary party on 16 August 2025. He had been drinking heavily before an argument developed about driving home. He hit her to the side of the jaw, causing blurry vision, and later hit her again and slapped her mobile phone out of her hand while she attempted to record him. She suffered two displaced fractures to her jaw, required surgery with metal screws and plates, and was left with ongoing pain and a speech impediment. The children were in the family home at the time and later had to be placed in temporary foster care during her surgery.

Steven Wales found a man dead in his bath after an apparent drug overdose and panicked, moving the body into a wheelie bin concealed behind derelict houses. He called 999 on 22 July 2025, two days later, and led police to the bin. The sentencing judge said the cause of death had been established as mixed drug toxicity but the precise circumstances were uncertain.

On 20 January 2025, Billy Rutter ran a red light in front of police in Birkenhead, and his van broke down immediately afterwards. When an officer approached and smelled alcohol, Rutter was asked to take a roadside breath test. He refused, pushed the officer, and during a struggle in moving traffic threw the officer to the ground, fracturing the officer's right shoulder. Rutter fled but was arrested the next day; he resisted arrest and attempted to spit at another officer. A craft knife was found in the driver's side door of his van.

Kathryn White subjected her partner to an 11-month campaign of physical, verbal and emotional abuse after they began a relationship in 2021. She isolated the victim from family and friends, forced a family member to leave the home, controlled what the victim wore, and made her leave her job and transfer her money. White repeatedly accused the victim of cheating and slapped her after she hugged a colleague. When the victim contacted police in July 2022, she reported that White had ripped a door from a wardrobe and thrown it at her, grabbed her throat and pinned her against a wall, and that she had no access to her own money, social media accounts or emails. White also threatened to take her own life if the victim tried to end the relationship.

On 27 July 2025, Merseyside Police received reports of shots fired in Wulstan Street, Kirkdale. Thomas Beverage was part of a group involved in discharging a Glock self-loading pistol, firing three shots that struck an alley gate while two men had been standing nearby moments earlier. He admitted conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, two counts of conspiracy to possess prohibited weapons, conspiracy to possess ammunition, and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs including heroin and cocaine.

Thomas Beveridge was part of a group that fired three shots from a stolen BMW towards a gate on a residential street in Kirkdale, Liverpool on 26 July 2025. The group turned the BMW around before firing. Forensic testing linked Beveridge to the firearms recovered by police.

Kieran Ingle was part of a group that fired three shots from a stolen BMW towards a gate on a residential street in Kirkdale, Liverpool on 26 July 2025. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy offences involving firearms and ammunition.

On 27 July 2025, Merseyside Police received reports of shots fired in Wulstan Street, Kirkdale. Keiran Ingle was part of a group involved in discharging a Glock self-loading pistol, firing three shots that struck an alley gate while two men had been standing nearby moments earlier. He admitted conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, two counts of conspiracy to possess prohibited weapons, conspiracy to possess ammunition, and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs including heroin and cocaine.

On 27 July 2025, Merseyside Police received reports of shots fired in Wulstan Street, Kirkdale. Jonathan Ford was part of a group involved in discharging a Glock self-loading pistol, firing three shots that struck an alley gate while two men had been standing nearby moments earlier. He admitted conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, two counts of conspiracy to possess prohibited weapons, conspiracy to possess ammunition, and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs including heroin and cocaine.

Reece Sands was linked by forensic testing to firearms recovered after a shooting in Kirkdale, Liverpool. Police recovered a Glock self-loading pistol, a Taurus revolver, ammunition and Class A drugs. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, namely a Glock self-loading pistol.

McGrath sent a series of threatening emails in January and February 2024 to professionals including two MPs, a judge, a solicitor, a chartered surveyor and a bank, and posted on social media in November 2025 threatening to bomb a police headquarters and a town hall unless property was returned. His messages threatened explosions, shooting, and other violence. The court heard he was suffering a mental health relapse at the time and had been sectioned following his arrest.

Daniel Riley stole a car with a vulnerable woman inside and drove dangerously. He pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving, threats to kill, criminal damage, possession of class B drugs and assaulting an emergency worker. He was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court to 26 months in prison and banned from driving.

Karen Palmer subjected her husband to 20 years of physical, mental and emotional abuse, controlling their finances and isolating him from family and friends. On 31 March 2026, paramedics found the victim bleeding heavily from multiple injuries in Meols, including a deep laceration to his forearm close to a major artery and further cuts to his arms, hand, forehead and head. He had multiple scars from previous attacks. The court heard she monitored his mobile phone and prevented him from seeking medical help.

On 15 June 2025, outside a pub in Huyton, Merseyside, Liam Naylor became involved in a dispute. Despite an apparent handshake resolution, he later sat in his car while shouting at a group. With bystanders around the vehicle, he reversed and then drove forwards into a small crowd, striking a man who had been trying to stop him from driving because he was clearly unfit. The victim suffered fractures to his tibia and fibula, underwent a nine-hour operation, spent days in hospital and was unable to work for nine months. Naylor was arrested at home, was unsteady on his feet, and had an initial breath reading of 84 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, more than double the legal limit. He later refused to provide a blood sample. He pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm, dangerous driving, drink driving and failing to provide a specimen for analysis.

Andrew Roberts stabbed his 56-year-old father in the chest during an incident at a house in Woodchurch on 16 December 2025. The victim was taken to hospital, and his injuries were not life-threatening. Roberts was arrested in the Rake Lane area and was sentenced for Section 18 wounding with intent.

On 25 October 2024 at a shared house in Speke, Robert Trandafir attacked his housemate, the victim, after a row over a chair not being tucked under the kitchen table. Trandafir shouted insults about Moldovans, threatened the victim, then retrieved a telescopic truncheon from his car. When the victim later left his room, Trandafir punched him, dragged him by the neck, repeatedly hit him in the head with the truncheon, pushed him into a wall breaking a mirror, and attempted to stab him in the face with a broken plate shard. The attack stopped when Trandafir saw the victim bleeding heavily. The victim suffered a concussion and a head wound requiring staples.

In July 2021, Dean Ode punched a female victim to the face during an argument, causing a fracture to her cheekbone requiring surgery. In January 2025, he assaulted a child by slapping them to the back of the head and pushing them. On 17 December 2025, after crashing a stolen vehicle in Chelford Road, Henbury, he assaulted a member of the public, paramedics and police officers, including spitting and attempting to headbutt officers. He refused to provide a blood sample and had driven without insurance or a licence.

Between March 2022 and December 2023, Michelle Boyd harassed her former partner by sending around 500 abusive emails and messages, continued after being asked to stop by solicitors, and also harassed his new girlfriend with threatening social media messages, contacted her employer with lies, and took photographs in public making derogatory comments. She also made false anonymous reports to Crimestoppers and tried to intimidate victims using her police position. She breached bail by posting on social media about the case.

James Taylor, 24, filmed himself performing a sex act on buses and in other public places. He came to police attention after performing a sex act in full view of two teenage boys on a bus in Widnes on May 8, 2024. He was identified via CCTV and the logo on his work fleece. His phones contained messages boasting about his crimes, described as 'risky w***s', and numerous videos of him performing sex acts in public, including on buses in 2019. Devices also contained 36 indecent images of children (4 category A, 11 category B, 21 category C) dated 2019-2024. He was arrested on May 29, 2024, and further arrested on December 18, 2024, for the indecent images.