Don't sit in the dock and cry for yourself.. be brave and take the blame

Judge jails motorist who injured 134 in rage

- PHIL CARDY

A MAN who drove into “person after person after person” at a Liverpool FC parade while in a rage was jailed yesterday for 21 years and six months.

Sentencing him, Judge Andrew Menary KC told Paul Doyle: “It is almost impossible to comprehend how any right-thinking person could act as you did.”

The judge added: “To drive a vehicle into crowds of pedestrians with such persistence and disregard for human life defies ordinary understanding.”

In total 134 were injured after Doyle, 54, ploughed his two-ton Ford Galaxy Titanium into the crowds celebrating Liverpool's Premier League title victory on May 26.

Shocking footage captured Doyle accelerating through a sea of people while screaming “get out of the f***ing way” and “f***ing p****s”.

Footage shown in court but not released by police as it is too horrific showed fans, including children, bouncing off his bonnet and being dragged under the wheels.

Doyle sobbed in the dock as Judge Menary told him: “The footage is truly shocking.

“It is difficult, if not impossible, to convey in words alone the scene of devastation caused.

“It shows you, quite deliberately, accelerating into groups of fans time and time again.

“You struck people head-on, knocked others onto the bonnet, drove over limbs, crushed prams and forced those nearby to scatter in terror.

“You ploughed on at speed and over a considerable distance, violently knocking people aside or simply driving over them. Person after person after person.

“You accelerated forward and backwards repeatedly.

“Several victims became trapped beneath the vehicle as you continued to move it, others were thrown into the air or propelled across the ground.