HERE are details of thee court cases we have reported on in April which saw defendants sent to prison.
Terence Earle
A DRUG dealer involved in a conspiracy to produce amphetamines with a street value of more than £1m at a hidden factory in Scotland has been jailed for 16-and-a-half years.
Terence Earle, 49, of Freckleton Road, West Park, played a “leading role” in a Merseyside-based organised crime gang which plotted to supply cocaine in England and Scotland and produce amphetamines in a “secret laboratory” north of the border, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
He was sentenced on Tuesday, April 18, for two counts of conspiracy to supply cocaine – one count relating to Scotland and the other to England and Wales – and conspiracy to produce amphetamines in Scotland.
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Gareth Parr
A TEENAGER, who was on bail after throwing urine and faeces at prison officers, threatened a group of men with a scythe in a public park just a day after he was released, a court heard.
A police officer on patrol saw a group of men fighting in Sherdley Park in St Helens.
One man, later identified as Parr, was armed with what was described as a "curved object" which turned out to be a scythe which he was "swinging in front of him towards the group".
A police officer placed himself between Parr and the group of men before another officer arrived and was able to take down the offender and handcuff him.
Parr, now 20, of Gibbons Avenue, Old Eccleston, who was already serving five and a half years for a wounding offence and breaching a suspended sentence, will serve an additional 10 months in prison.
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Russell Jones
A “SEXUAL predator” who assaulted a female hospital patient who was in a wheelchair was jailed.
Russell Jones, 45, had been convicted of sexual assault in March following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
The court heard during Jones’ sentencing on Thursday afternoon (April 27) that he had been “loitering” at the hospital and had waited for the victim’s boyfriend to leave in a taxi before committing the assault.
Jones, who has related previous convictions, was called a “sexual predator” by judge Garrett Byrne and someone who “posed a significant risk” to women.
Jones, of Ratcliffe Place, Rainhill, was sentenced to three years and an additional 24 weeks for breaching a suspended sentence.
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