In a dramatic twist to his case, a British man admitted to deliberately ploughing his car into crowds at the Liverpool Football Club’s Premier League victory parade on May 23. He changed his plea on Wednesday.
During the May 26 incident in Liverpool City Center, which left hundreds of people injured, including infants and children, Paul Doyle initially denied the 31 charges, including grievous bodily harm with intent, wounding with intent, affray, and dangerous driving.
Doyle entered his guilty pleas to each count on the second day of his trial, sobbing in the dock as he sobbed in a suit and glasses.
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Beginning on December 15, he will receive a two-day sentence.
He was instructed to prepare for “a lengthy custodial sentence” by Judge Andrew Menary.
As revelers left the May 26 parade to celebrate Liverpool’s victory, Doyle, a former Royal Marine, reportedly ploughed his Ford Galaxy Titanium  into numerous people.
According to Merseyside Police, he injured 134 people, including children, adults, and other children.
50 people needed hospital care, despite there being no fatalities.
When the Premier League season came to an end, the victims were celebrating the club’s 20th English top-flight victory, which was unheard of.
In front of hundreds of thousands of spectators, the team’s players had paraded the trophy along the city’s waterfront.
Some of the city’s main thoroughfares had been made available for normal traffic so the parade could pass.
Police quickly determined that the incident wasn’t terrorist-related. However, the alleged attack’s circumstances have largely remained undetermined.
The top regional prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, Sarah Hammond, claimed that Doyle had “finally accepted that he purposefully entered crowds of innocent people.”
She noted that his car’s dashcam footage showed that “he deliberately drove at them, forcing his way through” and that “he became increasingly agitated by the crowds.”
She continued, “Driving a car into a crowd is a calculated violence.
Paul Doyle made the decision to turn the celebration into mayhem, not a momentary lapse, he said.
29 victims, eight of whom were children at the time, were named in the criminal charges. The youngest was six months old.
Father-of-three Doyle, who has been in police custody since his arrest, will continue to serve until his sentencing.
Source: Channels TV
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