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Former constable Kia Pulford Stone resigned from Merseyside Police before she was sacked, after being convicted of assaulting a woman and damaging her Vauxhall Adam car

Talented young boxer Anthony Dodson, 21, was found after having suffered stab wounds to the chest in Liverpool and was taken to hospital where his family has said he is "on the right track"

Curtis Warren, 60, faces charges of breaching a Serious Crime Prevention Order - and left a hearing at Liverpool Magistrates' Court today wearing dark sunglasses and a hood

A 27-year-old man, described as an off-duty student officer - has been arrested on suspicion of drink and drug driving and driving dangerously after a car smashed into a house

James Preston, 21, accepts inflicting the wounds that killed 25-year-old Joe Holland in the early hours of June 8 this year following a ketamine and alcohol fuelled night out

Merseyside Police is investigating the stabbing of three people in a block of flats in Toxteth, Liverpool, on Sunday which left one man dead and another fighting for his life

The victim had spent a night out which ended with him and some fellow revellers taking drugs and inhaling 'happy gas' but ended up in a horror bloodbath that shocked his family

James Preston, 21, accepts inflicting the wounds that killed 25-year-old Joe Holland in the early hours of Thursday, June 8 this year, but denied murder and an alternative count of manslaughter as his trial began at Liverpool Crown Court today

Ashley Dale, a environmental health worker, was shot dead by James Witham who, with co-defendants Joseph Peers, Niall Barry and Sean Zeisz, was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court

Ashley Dale’s mum Julie has told how she "wasn't happy" with her going out with boyfriend Lee Harrison before she was gunned down at her home in Old Swan, Liverpool by mistake

Julie Dale, 43, and Rob Jones, 39 - mum and stepdad of Ashley Dale, 28 - have spoken of their heartbreak at losing their daughter - with four men convicted of her murder today

James Witham, who has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Old Sean and denies murder, has told of his first reaction after learning of her death

James Witham, who accepts the manslaughter of Ashley Dale, splurged around £400 on a trip to Footasylum, Everton Two club shop and Zizzi in a spree days after the killing

James Witham opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun less than four hours later and the bullets killed Ashley Dale but, while he accepts manslaughter, he denies murder

Ashley Dale, 28, was hit in the abdomen by a bullet when gunman James Witham, 41, kicked down the door of her home in Liverpool on August 21 last year, a trial at Liverpool Crown Court has heard

Carl Russell was killed five years ago and nobody has been charged with murder. Merseyside Police said they are keeping an open mind and their inquiries continue

Ashley Dale, 28, was hit in the abdomen by a bullet fired from a machine gun at her home in Old Swan, Liverpool on August 21 last year after an "old feud" was reignited at Glastonbury, a court heard

Ashley Dale, 28, from Liverpool, was found with gunshot wounds in the back garden of her home in August last year - with the trial of five men accused of her murder starting today

Taxi driver David Perry survived a bomb blast outside the Liverpool Women's Hospital in 2021 after passenger Emad Al Swealmeen set off an "unstable" homemade device

The maternity ward at Liverpool Women's Hospital was attacked one morning in November 2021 by 32-year-old pizza chef Emad Al Swealmeen, who died in the incident

John Lewis, who went by the street name ‘Stitch’, was one of four men on two stolen motorbikes who chased a Ford Fiesta, containing victim Jack Hayes in Birkenhead, Merseyside

Former Merseyside Police officer Jonathan Brown resigned after being arrested in possession of cocaine, with partner PC Chloe Fitton failing to show up to a misconduct hearing

One former barrister also described the man nicknamed "Will", after his apparent likeness to popstar Will Young, as "one of the most polite clients I have ever met" in 30 years of practise

Today marks the one year anniversary since Olivia Pratt-Korbel was gunned down and killed in her own home by Thomas Cashman, who was later locked up for life - but even now locals remember the fateful night the schoolgirl died

Connor Chapman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 48 years last month for the murder of Elle Edwards, 26 - who he shot dead outside the Lighthouse pub in Merseyside on Christmas Eve