Steven Ball and Emily Land prosecuted a Defendant who fled the country after violent disorder and stabbing in the city centre in the early hours following Boxing Night 2023. He was arrested in Spain earlier this year and extradited back to the UK and pleaded guilty to joint enterprise wounding and violent disorder and denied that he used a knife. At the time of these offences he had been on licence for manslaughter arising from a conviction in 2017. The court adjourned the matter for an assessment of dangerousness. The court was persuaded not to impose a life sentence and instead imposed an extended sentence of 14 years of which 9 years would be served in custody with licence upon release extended to 5 years. Judge Driver KC remarked that “your claims of being remorseful are undermined by your behaviour and previous conviction for manslaughter”
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Instructed by Adrian Evans, CPS Liverpool