Liverpool parade attacker sentencing live: ‘Sober’ Paul Doyle drove into crowd ‘in a rage’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8xd97z0k00t
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Liverpool parade attacker sentencing live: ‘Sober’ Paul Doyle drove into crowd ‘in a rage’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8xd97z0k00t
Posted by Tartan_Samurai
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*Mr Greaney tells the court: “The strong sense from the dashcam footage is that the defendant regarded himself as the most important person on Dale Street, and considered that everyone else needed to get out of his way so that he could get to where he wanted to get to.”*
Honestly, it feels like this statement not only sums up the defendant, but really sums up a great many problems we are all having in the world these days….
>Greaney said after dropping his friends off in the city centre, Doyle drove “markedly more aggressively” on the way home, undertaking other vehicles and running a red light.
>He arrived home at 13:35 BST.
>After texts between Doyle and Dave Clark, it was agreed that Doyle would come and pick his friend up again.
>He left his home in Croxteth at 17:29. He drove aggressively back into the city centre.
>The court has seen dashcam footage of Doyle speeding along residential roads on his way into Liverpool, clearly running a red light and undertaking other cars. Music can be heard on the radio.
>Greaney said: “This conduct is far from the most culpable that the defendant engaged in that day, but it forms part of Count 1 – dangerous driving – and demonstrates that the safety of others was far from the priority of Paul Doyle even at that early stage.”
I know that it was a common ‘defence’ that he panicked when he ended up in the crowds, but the guy was clearly acting like a consummate bellend before that and should not have been on the roads.
Reports of what his dash camera shows from Sky/Echo/BBC all seem to contradict the lie that it was an ‘angry mob’ that triggered the whole thing.
Needs a lifetime driving ban, but assume it’ll be for 2 months or something with how light sentencing is for driving related crimes
Can we make dashcams a requirement for drivers found guilty of serious driving offences returning to the road? Like breathalyzer locks….
I should have been there that day, it was only the fact that my dad was ill that stopped us going, he was at hillsborough and had we been there I don’t think he’d have recovered for this.
The way the right wingers went from immediately jumping on terrorism to then pinning the blame on the fans should be studied for how bigotry colours the truth.
Couldn’t have possibly been that a white man who was an ex marine is just an arsehole
So he had a dashcam, and then purposely drove like a twat, while sober in a way that endangered others lives? Sounds like he managed to convict himself (much like the idiots that film themselves speeding) with his own footage.
I’m sorry to say that I tried to reserve judgement about the guy when it broke, but damn the public reaction was right about him being a twat.
Why wasn’t he charged with attempted murder? Surely ramming people with a 2 ton car is trying to end their lives
What I don’t understand about this case. Why wasn’t such an obvious road, blocked off with marshalls. Isn’t this usually the case. If it wasn’t, I have a big issue with the event management team.
So, driving ban?
Or will they try to claim that not being allowed to drive will cause “exceptional hardship”?
For those interested, here are the sentencing guidelines for his most serious offence (GBH with intent):
https://sentencingcouncil.org.uk/guidelines/causing-grievous-bodily-harm-with-intent-to-do-grievous-bodily-harm-wounding-with-intent-to-do-gbh/
From that I’d think a sentence of no less than 7 years, and maybe as much as 16. With a reduction for guilty plea, although a lesser reduction as he didn’t plead guilty at the first opportunity.
Every time I hear about this story, I’m just thankful that it didn’t result in any fatal injuries. It’s remarkable to think it didn’t.
>Prosecutor Mr Greaney sums up the footage that has been shown, telling Liverpool Crown Court: “Before he accelerated left and into the crowd, the defendant abused the fans in the road, shouting things like, “get off the [expletive] road…
>He says one of the younger victims, a 10-year-old girl, was struck in the moments after that short pause. The dashcam footage shows how her father tried to push her out of the way but was too late. After she was struck, Doyle could be heard shouting “[Expletive] move.”
This attitude is absolute poison and infecting society as a whole.
This was absolutely horrific as it was, but it could have been even worse; I still have absolutely no idea how this guy didn’t kill anyone?
Same air as that American dude that had footage of himself raging out in his car at road closures, so mounted like 30+ degree angle embankments to go around them and barrel into the street festival on the other side, before ignoring police bikes trying to stop him for several more blocks as he went full rage mode. A number of near misses at pretty high speed.
Video of it was on /r/IAmTheMainCharacter a while back.
From quick read I see 31 charges.
Anyone know the potential min or max sentence that could be given here?
So he done all this simply because he couldn’t be arsed waiting any longer? Shouldn’t be seeing freedom again until hes a very old man.
Reading that. What happened between then to turn what might’ve been a reasonable drive to drop his friend off into one of the most viscous acts of road rage ever?
He knew there was a parade on, he knew there would be a crowd of nigh on a million, with road closures. In spite of all that decided to drive like a loon instead of park up somewhere a bit quieter and wait for his friend?
He strikes me as someone with anger management issues, if that is how he responds to stuff, and too many selfish and self-centred pricks around.
I can’t believe this.
There’s been a lot of media speculation that he suffered from sort of of episode or that it was drug induced, which would’ve both been hprrific
Turns out that the guy literally decided to mow people down because he was getting pissed off with pedestrians whilst behind the wheel? Literally unbelievable. No one was killed (miraculously) but the guy deserves a really severe sentence.
If this really all happened..just because there was a crowd in his way!!?….he is seriously fucked in the head!