All news by author: Patrick Edrich

Sarah, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, shared how she had engaged in repeated conversations with serial romance fraudster Cieran McNamara between 2019 and 2021.

"Wholly innocent" Elle, 26, was on a night out with her sister and friends when she was killed by a hail of bullets outside the Lighthouse pub, Wallasey, on Christmas Eve 2022

A gang of drug dealers who hailed from the Merseyside area worked with connections in Plymouth to deliver the Class As to the city using couriers who would travel to the Devon port

Loughlan Nicholas Brown's mother received a worrying phone call from her son's boyfriend alerting her to a text message that warned that the 22-year-old may take his own life

Shelly Gill had no memory of the accident in December last year and woke up three weeks later in hospital after having a subarachnoid haemorrhage at the wheel

Mum-of-three Sarah Stephens died within minutes of an ambulance arriving. Her bereaved father Paul explained he had called the ambulance only as a precaution, with "everything seeming normal"

A house on a gated road in Liverpool was firebombed by three suspects in the early hours of Friday morning with Merseyside Police labelling the act 'totally reckless'

Mum Danielle Muirhead, 32, from Walton, Liverpool, scammed over £36,000 in Universal Credit, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit after her two youngest children went into care in March 2018

The mum said she feels 'targeted' after a vile sticker was left on her car window after she visited B&M store with her children

Ashley Dale, a 28-year-old council worker, was shot in the abdomen with a Skorpion sub-machine gun on August 21 last year in her Leinster Road home

Two men suffered serious injuries to their face and hands after a firework exploded inside a moving car in Kirkby, Merseyside, and Merseyside Police were called

WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: A man was cleaning up after a firework display in Aigburth, Liverpool, when he picked up a discarded firework and it exploded in his hand

The Merseyside location covers both affluent and deprived areas of the city and pedestrians have to contend with 'dingy' underpasses and drug paraphernalia strewn on the ground

Kai Birkett, a 23-year-old self-employed joiner, was arrested by a police officer shortly after trying to enter the Reef Bar in Warrington, Cheshire on March 13 last year

Mum-of-three Melissa Kinsella suffered a cardiac arrest while on holiday in Turkey in May and was then pronounced dead only hours after landing back home in Merseyside

It was claimed that a passenger on the Portugal-bound flight from Manchester Airport was 'slapped hard' across the face by someone they were travelling with due to their behavior towards another passenger

Ian St John, who has been paralysed for seven years due to spinal cancer, said he was due to fly from Cork Airport in Ireland to Liverpool but was refused access to his flight

Carer Faye Collins has been jailed after she stole £4,360 using a dementia patient's bank card, whilst already suspended for stealing money from another vulnerable woman

Matthew Daulby, 19, "gave love so generously" and "had zest for life", said his family in a tribute after he was named by Lancashire Police as the victim of a stabbing in Ormskirk

The dad of four and granddad of eight also suffered gunshot wounds to the back when the balaclava-clad gunmen burst into the business at around 6pm. He died of his injuries five hours later leaving his devastated widow behind

The easyJet flight, from Lanzarote's Arrecife Airport to John Lennon Airport, was due to take off at 9.45pm on Wednesday, July 5, but did not leave the Spanish airport until nearly 11.30pm

Paul Rutledge, from Widnes, Cheshire, also hurled tiles at police officers while shouting his demands for cigarettes and McDonald's in an "extraordinary" standoff with police

Michael Legros was returning from a holiday in Bali with his partner Heidi Mullis and their young children when he was stopped by Border Force officers at Manchester Airport

Becky Flattery, from Huyton, Liverpool, has told of how she now sleeps in the living room of her flat with her two children due to the "noises in the ceiling" coming from rats

Paula Hounslea, 37, went missing from her home in West Derby, Liverpool, in 2009 and her burnt body was found three years later in a fire pit on a disused railway line