A list of the criminals jailed over the last 31 days after being caught for their violent, serious and shameful crimes
These are the faces of 35 criminals jailed throughout the month of May of serious, violent and shameful crimes.
A hammer thug, a vile stalker, a teenage drug dealer and heartless thieves who targeted vulnerable victims were among those sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court and beyond.
Judges handed out jail time after hearing evidence that convicted a pervert who arranged to molest a toddler and rape an 11-year-old girl and a dangerous driver who killed his fellow passenger.
Courts also listened as a man was convicted of stealing hand sanitiser, toilet rolls and chocolates donated to brave nurses and doctors at Alder Hey.
Later in the month, a drug dealer linked to criminal playboy Liam 'The Lam' Cornett, was jailed after a dramatic £100,000 cocaine bust.
Here is an overview of some of the most serious cases to have concluded in the courts over the past month.
A dad-of-one made the lives of his former partner's family a misery by bombarding them with obscene and threatening phone calls.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Geoffrey Bromilow had been in a long-standing relationship with the mum of his child, but this had broken down in the months leading up to the offence.
This culminated with Bromilow being charged with assaulting his former partner, Nichola Marlett, which prompted a stream of increasingly abusive and menacing phone calls to her family in St Helens to try and get the charge dropped.
These were directed at his ex-partner's dad, mum, and sister.
At one point Bromilow, 37, threatened he would get a gang in Manchester to "kidnap, rape and torture" the dad, Philip Marlett. He also said he would be "murdered by a f------ crew".
Vile sexualised threats were also made towards Mr Marlett's wife Betty, and daughter Lisa.
Bromilow, of Woodhouse Lane, Wigan, pleaded guilty to one offence of stalking and putting Philip Marlett in fear of violence, after changing his plea the day before a trial was due to start.
Bromilow was jailed for 32 months, of which he must serve half in custody.
The judge also imposed a six-year restraining order to prevent Bromilow contacting Philip, Betty, and Lisa Marlett.
Stephen Carney lost a bar fight to a grandad nearly twice his age then waited outside and battered him with a hammer.
The drunken lout was being loud and pestering a woman at The Vulcan pub in St Helens on Sunday, February 9 this year.
As he became increasingly aggressive, 57-year-old Stuart Whittingham stepped in to try and calm the situation down.
When Carney, 33, decided to pick on Mr Whittingham instead, the grandad-of-six sent him packing with a flurry of punches.
But the coward went home, got a hammer and repeatedly hit him in the head - even when his victim lay on the ground.
Mr Whittingham suffered multiple head wounds, a wound to his upper lip and a wound under his right eye, at around 6.15pm.
When police attended the Robins Lane pub, they found Carney getting in a car, his tracksuit covered in blood, with the weapon.
A strip search at a police station revealed cocaine in a bag hidden between his buttocks and CCTV laid bare the awful attack.
Carney, of Peckers Hill Road, Sutton, St Helens, admitted wounding with intent plus possessing an offensive weapon and cocaine.
The thug, who has 19 past convictions for 29 offences, including multiple assaults, was jailed for six years and eight months.
Jack Ball, a drug dealer linked to criminal playboy Liam 'The Lam' Cornett, was caught after a dramatic £100,000 cocaine bust.
Cornett, 29, lived a lavish lifestyle in Spain, partied in Marbella and Monte Carlo, and enjoyed helicopter and Bentley rides.
He controlled a sprawling drug network that ran from his Costa del Sol base to estates in Anfield, Hull, Cardiff and Devon.
But the Huyton-born mastermind of cocaine, heroin and amphetamine plots is now serving a 26-year prison sentence.
Ball, 27, was rumbled when police used a stinger to stop a car carrying nearly 1kg of cocaine, set to be delivered to him.
One of Cornett's gang, Kensington dealer Ryan Perry, took the 44% pure stash down to Plymouth on October 9, 2018.
Officers intercepted his Ford Fiesta, recovered a 993.80g haul worth up to £99,380, and linked it by phone evidence to Ball.
Ball fled Plymouth and the next day took a 10am flight to Los Angeles, but was arrested on his return to the UK on November 6.
The crook, of Melbourne Street, Plymouth, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine and was jailed for seven years and four months.
James Adrian torched two cars outside a young family's Formby home in a mystery attack.
The thug poured petrol on Elliot Hope and Elizabeth Johnson's Jaguar XF and Volkswagen Golf in the dead of night.
The convicted gun crook then set the vehicles ablaze - endangering the lives of the sleeping couple and their four children.
Miraculously, Mr Hope had fallen asleep in a downstairs bedroom without any curtains and was quickly able to alert his partner.
He and Ms Johnson - a midwife who had just finished a gruelling 12-hour shift - then managed to rush their children to safety.
Prosecutors said it was the second arson attack at the couple's three storey, semi-detached home in Queens Road in five months.
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But the victims said they were at a loss to understand why they were targeted by 46-year-old Adrian, of Midland Terrace, Waterloo.
The drug dealer - once locked up for six and a half years for stashing a loaded revolver in his girlfriend’s house - refused to explain.
Adrian, originally from Toxteth, was caught as he sped away in the early hours of March 31 and CCTV cameras had filmed the incident.
He admitted two offences of arson being reckless as to whether lives were endangered, having caused around £40,000 of damage.
Judge Brian Cummings, QC, said the crime had "all the hallmarks of a gangland attack" as he jailed Adrian for six years.
Dylan Mairs-Lee threatened to post explicit photographs of his girlfriend online.
The creep sent his partner a series of abusive text messages between July 2019 and February 2020.
In some of the messages the 22-year-old threatened to post explicit pictures of her on the internet.
Mairs-Lee, of Quebec Road, Orford, Warrington, also attacked a member of her family in January.
He admitted engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour, assault, resisting arrest and breaching a suspended sentence.
Mairs-Lee previously received a two-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, for an assault conviction last July.
Magistrates jailed him for 32 weeks and made a restraining order to protect his victims for two years.
Nicola Hitchmough offered to go shopping for a blind woman at risk from coronavirus so she could steal her pension.
The thief previously helped the disabled 66-year-old across the road, near her sheltered accommodation in Edge Hill.
By doing so she learned the name of the OAP, who is blind in one eye and has very limited sight in the other.
Hitchmough, 39, then tricked her way into the complex where the victim lived, before searching out the woman's flat.
When the pensioner said she didn't need any shopping, Hitchmough asked to use her toilet and for some water.
The crook escaped with around £370 from her purse, then when the OAP pursued her, handed back around £210.
The mum-of-one was captured on CCTV cameras fleeing the building, at around 11.10am on April 14, and admitted burglary.
Hitchmough, of Arnside Road, Edge Hill, who has 12 past convictions for 25 offences, blamed her drug addiction.
She was jailed for three years.
Nathan Hakaim moaned that he was left trapped in a £500,000 cannabis factory by ruthless drug bosses.
Police arrested him when they raided a Wirral warehouse containing 437 cannabis plants and "sophisticated" growing equipment.
When shown photos of the huge farm - initially valued by police at £1.7m - he told officers: "It's a shame that it's going to go to waste."
But he later whinged that he was mistreated by those above him and left without a working shower, "living off noodles and biscuits".
His defence lawyer likened him to "sycophantic" Gareth Keenan, the paper salesman in Ricky Gervais' classic comedy The Office.
Police raided the building in Cleveland Street, Birkenhead and found Hakaim at around 10am, on Monday, November 18 last year.
The 32-year-old, who claimed to have been paid a pittance, was on bail at the time, having previously been caught with drugs in Wirral.
Police arrested Hakaim and another man in a Ford Focus in Cathcart Street, Birkenhead, at around 9.30pm, on July 18 last year.
Hakaim, of Gleneagles Avenue, Leicester, was driving around with £230 of cannabis cuttings and £2,160 of mature plants.
He admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply and production of cannabis and was jailed for three and a half years.
David Power swiped two charity boxes then repeatedly spat around the interior of a police car interior when arrested.
The heartless burglar, of no fixed address but living in Kirkby, broke into Appleton Village Pharmacy in Widnes on February 27.
The 37-year-old caused around £2,500 worth of damage before making off with the charity boxes following the overnight raid.
CCTV enabled investigators to identify Power as the culprit and on February 29, an officer driving spotted him walking past.
The burglar was seen putting something in a bin before his arrest and a Stanley knife was found lying on top of the rubbish.
Power, who became aggressive and abusive, "continually" spat inside the police car, before kicking out at an officer in custody.
He admitted burglary, assaulting an emergency service worker and causing criminal damage to a police vehicle.
Power denied possessing a bladed article in public and a second burglary, which were both ordered to lie on the file.
He was jailed for two years and four months.
Julian Hakim "potted" a female prison officer with a bucket full of urine and faeces from multiple inmates.
The vile inmate hurled the mixture over the woman, who the ECHO chose not to name, at HMP Risley in Warrington.
CCTV footage captured the horrific moment the contents landed on her face and she could taste urine in her mouth.
Hakim, 34, of Viola Street, Bootle, claimed he was told to do it by someone else and was "expecting drugs as a reward".
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He was moved to HMP Altcourse after the attack at the shower block on the prison's E wing on October 10 last year.
Hakim, who has 49 past convictions for 105 offences including robbery, admitted administering a noxious substance.
He was serving a sentence for multiple thefts and claimed he had been vulnerable in jail because of events in his past.
Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, said: "It's hard to imagine any human being doing that to another, but it's something that is becoming increasingly common in our prisons and it's something that you did to a female prison officer."
He jailed Hakim for 20 months.
Kevin McMullen stole hand sanitiser, toilet rolls and chocolates donated to brave nurses and doctors at Alder Hey.
The serial burglar has a "horrendous" criminal record, featuring 82 past convictions for a staggering 135 offences.
He is subject to a 10-year Criminal Anti-Social Behaviour Order (CRASBO), banning him from all schools, churches and care homes.
The 56-year-old is also not allowed to enter any medical facility, without first making his presence known to its staff.
But on April 7 - when subject to four suspended sentences, one for raiding a church - he targeted the children's hospital.
CCTV footage showed McMullen entering the building in West Derby to steal from the heroes of the coronavirus pandemic.
He was identified by police on the video and arrested at home, when officers discovered items seemingly taken from Alder Hey.
McMullen, of Lister Road, Fairfield, admitted burglary, breaching his CRASBO, and breaching four suspended jail sentences adding up to 20 weeks, imposed in January and March this year.
Judge David Swinnerton said targeting the hospital was an "abhorrent" thing to do and jailed him for 30 months in total.
Serial banned driver Wayne McCarthy gave police his uncle's details in a desperate bid to avoid prison.
The 34-year-old was subject to three separate driving bans when he went out in his Ford Transit van in Wirral.
The builder had already been convicted of driving while disqualified three times and without insurance four times.
McCarthy, of Sceptre Road, Croxteth, was also serving a suspended jail sentence for both of these offences.
He later claimed he was only driving "on an errand of mercy" to collect his sister, who has learning difficulties.
Police carried out a routine stop on McCarthy's white van in Poulton Road, Wallasey on March 24 this year.
The "nervous" driver gave his uncle Paul Crawley's name and address, then admitted that he didn't have insurance or a licence.
This put Mr Crawley at risk of being prosecuted for both offences and an officer gave McCarthy a penalty notice and seized his van.
McCarthy, who has seven previous convictions for 12 offences, was later arrested and confessed after the officer discovered his true identity.
He admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice, driving while disqualified and without insurance, and breaching a suspended sentence.
McCarthy was jailed for 30 weeks and handed a new three-year driving ban.
William Neenan called a police officer "an English bastard" after accusing him of "kneeing him in the bollocks".
The 42-year-old demanded money from 66-year-old shopkeeper Ali Dahsam, at Anfield News, in Anfield Road.
The Irishman claimed he was owed £200 by the victim's son, but Mr Dahsam said he had no idea what he was talking about.
Neenan, of Holbeck Street, Anfield, flew into a rage, lent over the counter and tried to slap the terrified OAP in the face.
In front of horrified customers, including children, he then pulled over a glass mobile phone display cabinet, which smashed.
When caught by police, put inside their car and handcuffed, he yelled at one officer: "You kneed me in the b*****ks you English bastard!"
He admitted saying this "explaining the officer was English and was being a bastard" and said English people were "arrogant and uneducated".
Neenan admitted criminal damage, common assault, racially aggravated harassment and breaching a suspended sentence.
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Last May he was handed an eight-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, for producing and possessing cannabis, and abstracting electricity.
He was jailed for three months and given a three-year restraining order to protect Mr Dahsam and his family.
Barry Ellis deliberately coughed and blew smoke in the face of a nurse after lowering his mask on a coronavirus ward.
The 47-year-old claimed he was showing symptoms of the disease and was admitted to Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.
A court heard the drunken crook didn't in fact have coronavirus, or think that he did, but medical staff didn't know that.
And his vile act left the nurse fearing she had caught Covid-19 and may have passed it on to her family or other patients.
Ellis - who has 42 convictions for 65 offences - was "aggressive, abusive and threatening", at around 3pm, on April 13.
The victim endured sleepless nights, became more anxious and lost confidence when dealing with confrontational patients.
Ellis, of Rock Lane East, Rock Ferry, admitted assaulting an emergency worker and breaching a suspended sentence.
Last July he was given 18 weeks in jail, suspended for 12 months, for wasting police time.
That was after he falsely claimed there was a gunman at a pub in Upton.
Ellis was jailed for nine months in total.
Joel Dowling made threatening phone calls from inside a prison cell - landing him even more time in jail.
The 23-year-old, from Skelmersdale, was slapped with the injunction last year along with his associate Stephen Grimes, meaning they were not allowed to communicate with each other, or a list of eight other people.
The pair were sentenced together after they went on a rampage at The Elmridge Arms pub in September and threatened a man with a knife.
In April, Dowling was given a 42-day suspended prison sentence, after being caught speaking to Grimes and breaching the injunction.
But he was returned to jail anyway for breaching his prison licence, after being released from custody early.
Despite only being back in prison for less than a month, Dowling, of no fixed address, then made the threatening calls.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to another 42 days in prison, consecutive to the 42-day suspended term.
Jason Downey kept a "dark secret" that he once raped a little boy and girl for more than three decades.
The 48-year-old, of Trent Close, Rainhill, molested three children in Huyton in the 1980s, when he was aged 15.
He raped a boy who was three or four, raped a girl under the age of 10, and groped another girl under 10.
Downey - now a married man with three children of his own - blamed his sick crimes on his absent parents.
Judge David Aubrey, QC, said: "For many years, indeed decades, you held onto a dark secret.
"You're not the only one who has kept these offences stored in the mind - so have your victims, who were such a tender age when you sexually abused them."
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The two now adult rape victims told the court how the abuse had ruined their lives and left them traumatised.
Downey confessed, said he was sorry and claimed he didn't intend to hurt his victims, but "couldn't help himself".
He admitted nine counts of gross indecency with a child, two of which would be classified as rapes today.
Judge Aubrey said: "You took away from your three victims their childhood, happiness and innocence."
The judge added: "You have scarred them all greatly and, in truth, given to them a life sentence."
However, under sentencing guidelines he had to take into account the fact Downey was 15 at the time.
Judge Aubrey jailed him for four and a half years and told him to sign on the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely.
Jack Quinton hid two loaded guns above a chimney but was caught with his hands covered in black dust.
A member of the notorious Fernhill gang, he desperately stashed an Italian revolver and a semi-automatic Glock with a silencer, plus bullets capable of being fired with either weapon.
But armed police burst into a garage he had taken over in Bedford Road, Bootle, shortly after 5pm, on March 28 last year.
Quinton, 26, who was on licence from prison for a gangland kidnapping and terrifying burglary, had only been freed six months earlier.
His DNA was on the weapons, which prosecutors said were "ready to go", in a bag hidden on top of a very dusty chimney breast.
The mother of his seven-month-old daughter, Darhyl Hannah-Smith, 29, who ferried the crook around in her car, drove to the scene when he was arrested.
She later sent him phone numbers to use on a new SIM card, which he acquired within hours of going into custody.
He was also seen driving an Audi RS4 on March 22, stolen in Nottinghamshire on March 8, from which his DNA was later recovered.
Quinton, of Garden View, Caspian Place, Bootle, admitted possessing the Glock with intent to endanger life, possessing the silencer, possessing the revolver, two counts of possessing ammunition and handling stolen goods.
He was jailed for 13 and a half years, with an extended two and a half years on licence.
Smith, of Crompton Street, Kirkdale, who admitted participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group, was handed 16 months in jail, suspended for two years, plus 120 hours of unpaid work and a 10-day Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
Teenage drug dealer Robert Lingham hid £4,000 of heroin and crack cocaine under a mattress in a hotel bedroom.
The then 18-year-old was caught with the stash at a Travelodge in Fiddlers Ferry Road, Widnes in the early hours of August 3 last year.
Police also discovered £575 in cash, a small amount of cannabis and two mobile phones, which later revealed evidence of drug dealing.
Lingham, from the Runcorn area, remained tight-lipped during a police interview and was released on bail, pending further investigations.
Just over a month later, officers raided another hotel room Lingham was staying in, this time at the Days Inn, in Liverpool city centre.
They seized 54g of crack cocaine - said by police to be worth "thousands of pounds" - and a small bag of cannabis on September 11.
On October 11, he admitted possessing a Class A drug with intent to supply and possessing a Class B drug, in relation to the September 11 find.
But the judge wasn't made aware of the outstanding investigation relating to the August 3 haul and jailed him for two years and seven months.
Lingham, now 19, admitted two more counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply, and possessing cannabis, earlier this month.
Judge Rachel Smith said if she had sentenced Lingham for all of the offences in October, she would have jailed him for three years.
As a result, she sentenced him to a further five months behind bars.
Dangerous driver Alex Lloyd killed his passenger Paul Hayes - a young support worker and beloved Liverpool fan.
The uninsured and unlicensed driver left the 25-year-old dead and his victim's girlfriend Lauren Hay, 19, critically injured.
The 26-year-old was at the wheel of a Ford Fiesta which collided head-on with a Ford S-Max private hire taxi in West Derby.
The impact left the car flipped on its side, the taxi rolling in the road, and Lauren trapped in the Fiesta, at 1am, on June 29 last year.
Witnesses said Mr Hayes was found lying underneath the Fiesta, on Princess Drive, after they described hearing a loud "bang".
Mr Hayes, who cared for people with mental health difficulties, and the driver knew each other, but the extent of their relationship is unclear.
Two men travelling in the S-Max private, aged 34 and 66, were treated at the scene for slight injuries, while Lauren was taken to hospital.
Lloyd, who refused to be breathalysed, was seen shouting out in shock, covered in blood, before he was arrested by police.
He admitted causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, causing death by driving a vehicle while uninsured and unlicensed, and failing to provide a specimen for analysis.
Lloyd, of Lawson Walk, West Derby, was jailed for seven years and four months.
He was banned from driving for eight years and seven months.
Shameful photos showed Lennon Lowry and his robbery gang posing for selfies in an OAP's stolen motability car.
Lowry and two friends took the Nissan X-Trail in a cruel burglary from a Wirral woman who cares for her elderly mum, aged 89.
Within hours of the early morning raid in Wallasey, it had been filled with stolen petrol and fitted with stolen licence plates.
Lowry, then 17, Callum Carr, 22, and Jack O'Connor, 18, smoked and made hand gestures as they sat in the car and on its roof.
A disgraceful video later showed Lowry - wearing latex gloves - at the wheel, as Carr asked: "Who are we going to rob today boys?"
The laughing gang were joined by Carr's brother, Lewis Carr, 18, when they robbed a 16-year-old boy of an iPhone in Upton that same day.
Lowry then shot through red lights to escape police, but officers used a stop stick to puncture two of the Nissan's tyres and rammed it off the road.
The Carr brothers and O'Connor were locked up in March, but Lowry, 18, of Burns Avenue, Wallasey, wasn't sentenced until this week.
He already had 26 convictions for 62 offences, dating back to when he was just 12, before the burglary and robbery on August 21 last year.
Lowry, who admitted burglary, theft, making off without payment, robbery and dangerous driving, was locked up for two years and a half years.
He was banned from driving for 33 months.
Tricamo Farid illegally claimed more than £120,000 in benefits after stealing the identity of a family friend.
The dad-of-two stole the huge sum by conning his way into falsely claiming benefits including Job Seekers Allowance, Employment Support and Personal Independence Payments, as well as council tax and housing benefits.
The 40-year-old, of St Thomas More Drive in Southport, carried out the deception for 17 years, before being arrested in May 2018 and had largely used the money to feed an alcohol addiction.
Born in Mozambique, he left the country to earn money for his ill mother and, while he was in Lisbon in 1999, he stole identification documents belonging to Portuguese national Dercio Quinta.
He then used the stolen ID to gain entry to Dublin, before moving to England in 2001 and obtaining a National Insurance number using Mr Quinta's ID.
Judge Thomas Teague, QC, said: "You stole the ID of a Portuguese man and got a National Insurance number using that fake ID.
"You even had the cheek to complete and sign documentation for an appeal for a decision you didn't like in 2016."
Farid, who admitted 20 charges relating to fraud, acquiring criminal property and dishonestly claiming a wrongful credit, was jailed for two years.
Anthony Corish was caught with a gun, silencer and bullets plus £13,000 of high purity cocaine.
The dad-of-three stashed the semi-automatic pistol, sound moderator and ammunition in a bathroom airing cupboard.
The 39-year-old also had 131g of 81% pure cocaine - believed to have been cut from a kilo block - secreted under the stairs.
Prosecutors said the haul was found at a house where he was living with his wife and children in Chatham Close, Seaforth.
That was while builders carried out £80,000 of renovations on their family home in Church Road, Seaforth, after Corish paid a £15,000 deposit in cash.
No one was present when police raided the house, at 9.55am, on February 5 this year, and found the American .380 ACP calibre self-loading pistol, with a "silencer or sound moderator", a magazine containing 11 bullets, and a further 26 rounds stored separately, all capable for use in that firearm.
Officers also found a set of scales, plastic bags and £225 in cash under a sink, then in a master bedroom £1,780 in cash, latex gloves and a face mask.
In a cupboard under the stairs an officer retrieved three blocks of cocaine, valued at up to £13,160, a white bag bearing traces of the drug, and sandwich bags.
Corish admitted two counts of possessing a firearm, possessing ammunition, and possessing cocaine with intent to supply.
He was jailed for 10 years.
Ben Humphries and Alan Grimes
Benjamin Humphries was caught trying to climb out the window of a drug den where he sold crack cocaine and heroin.
The 19-year-old, from Speke, moved into the Brentfield, Widnes home of alcoholic and cannabis smoker Alan Grimes, 52.
Humphries tried to escape just moments before police raided the first floor flat, at around 8am, on November 27 last year.
But when he spotted officers he decided to hurl a package out the window, scattering Class A drugs in the car park below.
The package and his manbag contained 92 wraps of 55% pure heroin, weighing 11.46g in total, with an estimated street value of £1,146, plus 107 wraps of 75% pure crack, weighing 8.26g in total, valued at £826.
Police also seized 23g of cannabis, which prosecutors accepted Humphries had for his personal use, and £245 in cash.
Humphries, of Alderwood Avenue, Speke, who has no previous convictions, admitted two counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply and possessing cannabis.
Grimes, who pleaded guilty to two counts of permitting his premises to be used for the supply of Class A drugs, has a long criminal record dating back to 1992.
Humphries was locked up for two years and four months, while Grimes was jailed for eight months.
Grimes was also handed a three-year Criminal Behaviour Order, which bans him from activity including having three or more visitors to his home at any one time.
Mum-of-three Lisa Overton started a fire which left her own children and her husband's 94-year-old gran homeless.
The 33-year-old took a cocktail of alcohol and prescription drugs before lighting her own bedding at their house in Southport.
She had to be rescued by a hero neighbour as the blaze destroyed much of the first floor of the home in Fylde Road on December 10 last year.
Anthony McCullough ran into the burning building and brought Overton to safety, after seeing her calling for help through a smashed window.
She explained she had hit "the lowest ebb of my life" and not thinking straight, having struggled with anxiety and depression, combined with exhaustion caused by the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia.
Her mum and husband had gone to collect the children from Ormskirk and her mum told Overton she couldn't give her a lift to Chorley to see a friend.
Overton seemingly accepted this, but later rang her mum, as a smoke alarm could be heard, and said: "I've killed the dogs and set fire to the house."
In fact the dogs were safe and well in the garden but the repair bill to the property is estimated to cost thousands of pounds.
Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, said her children had lost their home and her husband's gran had to leave her lifelong home and move into care.
Overton was jailed for 22 months.
Kevin Lloyd broke into the Wetherspoons pub at Lime Street station but was caught red handed with three packets of peanuts.
Lloyd and his "partner in crime" Dean Kempster raided the North Western pub - closed due to lockdown - at around 9pm on May 9.
But the manager was alerted when he received notification that the alarm had been activated, headed to the pub and spotted their escape.
He alerted the authorities and when police arrested the men they had managed to steal just three packets of peanuts.
The pair both admitted burglary.
Lloyd, 35, of Duke Street, Liverpool, was jailed for 12 weeks at Liverpool Magistrates' Court and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £156.
Kempster, 42, of no fixed address, was handed 12 months in jail, suspended for 12 months and told to pay £85 towards court costs.
Chief inspector Dave Rams, from British Transport Police, said: "Using the lockdown as an opportunity to commit crime at a time of national emergency when people were being asked to stay at home to save lives, is particularly heinous, as demonstrated by the severity of the sentences.
"Thankfully, due to the alarm activation system, the fruits of Lloyd and Kempster's criminal labour amounted to just three packets of peanuts – which should give both pause for thought."
Serial armed robber Gerard Laverty raided a Spar store with a cordless drill disguised as a gun.
He held the makeshift weapon to a shop assistant's face and demanded: "Empty the till or I will blow your head off."
Brave Gbolahan Balogun wrestled it off him and when drunken Laverty tried to flee, a heroic customer dragged him to the floor.
Laverty, of Clifton Road East, Anfield, was then arrested at the store, which is attached to the BP garage in Sefton Street, Toxteth.
Just two weeks earlier, the 41-year-old had been handed a suspended sentence for theft and possession of a blade last June.
And police had not yet caught up with him over a bungled burglary at Delifonseca, the gourmet deli at Brunswick Quay.
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Laverty struck at the food hall in the early hours of November 11, but cut himself on a window and left blood at the scene.
He left empty handed and when police identified his DNA and arrested him, he confessed, but was released on bail.
On January 22, Laverty was handed eight months in jail, suspended for 18 months, for stealing alcohol from a Lidl when carrying a Stanley knife.
The masked crook then targeted the Spar store, at around 8.15pm, on Saturday, February 8, only for that raid to end in disaster for him too.
He again confessed and admitted robbery, possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, and burglary.
Laverty, originally from Toxteth, who has 21 convictions for 68 offences, was jailed for six and a half years.
Tony Gath threatened to blow up his ex-partner's family home after turning on all four gas rings on her cooker.
He was meant to go shopping with his partner in Wirral, before picking up their children from school and having them for the weekend.
But when she arrived at his Devonshire Road, Birkenhead home, she found the 38-year-old sitting in the bath, after an all-night bender.
She argued with Gath, who confessed he only got in at 7am, and when she left, he sent her a text threatening to blow up her house.
The dad-of-three then broke into the mid-terraced property in Darlington Close, Wallasey, sparking a siege lasting two and a half hours.
Armed police, firefighters and paramedics were called and Egremont Primary School was put on lockdown during the "terrifying" ordeal.
Gath - who has a conviction for grievous bodily harm against another ex partner - also threatened officers with a knife on February 28.
He gained entry by smashing a window - one of three he broke - then smashed the TV, slashed furniture and left stab marks in a wall.
Prosecutors said he told police: "I've lost my kids, I have nothing to lose, stay back or I'll stab you."
Gath, who has 22 past convictions for 35 offences, admitted threatening to damage property and affray.
Judge Thomas Teague, QC, said it was "an outpouring of self-pity" and jailed him for two and a half years.
Michelle Eccleston snatched an elderly woman's purse as she returned home from her first solo shopping trip after suffering a stroke.
The 84-year-old victim was said to be making good progress until the heartless crack and heroin addict struck outside her front door.
A court heard how the cruel theft on March 11 had a "huge" impact on the fragile and vulnerable OAP - setting back her recovery.
Eccleston - a 38-year-old grandmother - was on bail at the time of the theft for smuggling cannabis into prison, for the second time.
She followed the OAP to her home in St Helens, at around 9.40am, and grabbed her purse, containing up to £100, but was filmed on CCTV.
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Eccleston, of Brook End, St Helens, admitted theft and conveying a prohibited article into prison.
She was also caught on CCTV on August 28 last year, when she visited her boyfriend, Frankie Parr, an inmate at HMP Risley in Warrington.
Eccleston was seen to hug Parr then pass him a package, which contained 47g of cannabis in three half ounce deals, along with 72g of tobacco.
The mum of three adult children, formerly of Cranfield Road, Norris Green, has 36 past convictions for 82 offences.
Judge Denis Watson, QC, said the theft from the OAP was a "wicked offence" and jailed her for two years and three months.
Dad-of-four Thomas Walker arranged to molest a toddler and rape an 11-year-old girl during twisted online chats.
The pervert told a person he thought was the children's father that he was "into young girls" and had "no limits".
The 40-year-old said he would wear children's underwear when abusing the pair and wanted to "touch them all over".
But the sick paedophile, of Hurlingham Road, Walton, was actually talking to two undercover police officers using a decoy profile.
They raided his home and found a vile stash, including indecent images of babies and animal porn, and evidence he shared some files online.
Walker first started talking to the officers on the website FabSwingers on July 30 last year, before they chatted on WhatsApp and Kik Messenger.
He arranged to meet on August 6, stating that he "couldn't wait to see the children", and asking whether it was okay for him to "f*** them".
However, he did not turn up and later apologised, before confirming that he was still definitely "up for it", and arranging a second meet on August 29.
Again he failed to attend, so officers arrested him on September 2, and seized two mobile phones, which revealed more than 1,000 indecent images.
He admitted two counts of intentionally encouraging or assisting the commission of sexual offences, three counts of downloading indecent images of children, three counts of distributing indecent images of children, and one count of possessing extreme porn.
Walker was jailed for three and a half years and told to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for life.
Former Knowsley Council worker Karen Kavanagh stole £260,000 from the cash-strapped local authority.
The 60-year-old admitted diverting money initially intended for care homes into her own bank account in a "sophisticated and devious" fraud.
The grandmother, of Malvern Close in Kirkby, made a total of 122 fraudulent transactions over 11 years, stealing money meant for those most in need.
While working as a payments team leader, she was responsible for voiding cheques issued to care homes if they had not been deposited for six months.
But starting in March 2008, she began instead to pay that money into her own bank account, subsequently changing the payment details so it looked like the money had been paid to the care home.
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Her offending was eventually uncovered in April last year, when an investigation found that a payment of £6,542 meant for a St Stephen's Nursing Home had in fact been made to Kavanagh's bank account.
When confronted by police, she said she had taken the money in order to pay off debts left by her financially abusive ex-husband and did not live "a fancy life".
She was sacked after a major internal investigation at the council, which took significant amounts of senior officers' time and caused distress to colleagues.
Judge Brian Cummings, QC, said she had abused her "elevated position" to defraud "one of the most vulnerable local authorities in the country".
Kavanagh, who pleaded guilty to the fraud, was jailed for four years.
Stephen McHugh whose DNA was found on a sawn-off shotgun avoided a five-year minimum jail sentence.
Police spotted a suspected stolen Volkswagen Golf in Tower Hill, Kirkby, at around 9.20pm, on September 3 last year.
The Golf sped off and was chased to Rainbow Drive, Melling, where it smashed into a parked vehicle, and two men got out and fled.
The pair were never caught, but in a package on the back seat of the car officers discovered a weapons arsenal, including a sawn-off shotgun, a long barrelled shotgun, two shotgun cartridges and a shotgun bolt.
The Miroku sawn-off shotgun was examined, which revealed the DNA of McHugh, a 25-year-old convicted cocaine and cannabis dealer.
Sawn-off shotguns are prohibited firearms and possession of such a weapon carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison.
But his defence lawyers challenged the Crown Prosecution Service to prove when their client had possession of the firearm.
Prosecutors conceded that due to the limitations of DNA evidence, they could not rule out that McHugh handled the weapon before it was shortened.
It is not illegal to possess a long barrelled shotgun, as long as you have a firearms certificate, and while possessing it without a certificate is illegal, it is not subject to the minimum five years behind bars.
McHugh, of Ashbrook Drive, Fazakerley, admitted possessing the firearm without a certificate, and was jailed for two years and three months.
Arwel Smith - described as a "well mannered and polite young man" - tried to smuggle 82% pure cocaine into prison.
The apprentice plumber went to visit an inmate locked up at HMP Altcourse, the Category B men's jail in Fazakerley.
But prison officers at the G4S-run facility were suspicious because the 20-year-old visitor appeared "extremely nervous".
They found he was carrying a package in his jacket, which included high purity cocaine, cannabis, a mobile phone and SIM card.
Officers seized a black Samsung mobile phone, a SIM card, 3.38g of 82% pure cocaine, a Class A drug which police said had an estimated street value between £135 and £338, plus 7.85g of cannabis resin, a Class B drug valued between £78 and £117.
There were also two quantities of Class C drugs, including Buprenorphine tablets - an opioid sold under the brand name Subutex - and the steroid Oxandrolone.
Smith was arrested and interviewed on September 14 last year, when he would not name the person who he said had asked him to make the delivery.
He said he was an apprentice plumber on £900 a month, that he had a £900 overdraft, and he was offered £300 to take the items into the prison.
Smith, of Glan Alun, Mold, Wales, who admitted six counts of conveying a prohibited article into prison, did not have any previous convictions.
He was jailed for two years.
Ian Hunter risked his family's lives and gutted their home when he started a fire in his young sons' bedroom.
The drunken dad had to be rescued from their burning mid-terrace rented house in Kingsway, Huyton.
He had earlier twice stabbed his girlfriend - the mother of his three children - in the bottom with a flick knife.
The 51-year-old, from Runcorn, told police he only did it "for a laugh", during an all-day drinking bender, which started at 6am.
But he wasn't finished and using a lighter started a blaze in the box room shared by his sons, aged three and four.
The fire was so ferocious it blew out the front bedroom window and caused "devastating" damage upstairs.
A judge said it was a miracle that his sons, who were downstairs with their mum, were unharmed.
Hunter attacked his partner on Monday, January 27 this year and gave no explanation when challenged by her.
The mum thought he had later gone to sleep upstairs, but at around 8pm she smelt smoke and heard the fire alarm.
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She discovered the blaze, woke Hunter, then escaped with her two sons and went to her parents next door, where their daughter, 13, was staying.
Hunter initially denied any wrongdoing, but admitted arson reckless as to whether life was endangered and common assault.
No value was given for the damage, but the mum and children had to move in with her parents, as their home is now unlivable.
Hunter was jailed for five years.