Liverpool parade car attacker was 'man in a rage'

A former Royal Marine was a "man in a rage" as he mowed down dozens of fans of Liverpool football club at a victory parade in what many feared was a terrorist attack, a court has heard.

- Josh Halliday

Victims of Paul Doyle wept as dash-cam footage showed bodies spinning through the air as he accelerated into crowds while screaming: “Fucking hell, move!”

Doyle, 54, is to be sentenced today after pleading guilty on the first day of his trial last month to 31 offences against 21 adults and eight children.

Paul Greaney KC, prosecuting, warned those in Liverpool crown court yesterday that the footage from Doyle’s Ford Galaxy was “truly shocking”. It showed the man shouting: “Fucking pricks” and “Fucking move” as he drove towards hundreds of fans, some pulling children out of the way as he blasted the horn.

Doyle injured 134 people, including more than 50 who needed hospital treatment, in his “sickening” seven-minute rampage on 26 May, the court was told. Footage from a police body-worn camera showed four victims - including a 77-year-old woman and a bleeding 11-year-old boy - being rescued from beneath the two-tonne vehicle as an officer shouted: “Oh my god, oh my god!”