The MyWirral newsletter will bring you news from across the borough in a way you’ve never had before. Court documents obtained from The Netherlands detail how a man with “an accent from Liverpool" was a feared enforcer with an international gangland reputation. Dad-of-one Craig Groves burst into the pensioner’s St Helens home wielding a heavy paving slab on December 7 last year. The feared criminals, whose gang had access to a cache of guns, samurai swords and machetes, were jailed for more than 26 years combined in November 2013. The five Safeguarding Children Partnerships in Merseyside (Wirral, Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens) have published a multi-agency Child Exploitation protocol for professionals:

The 47-year-old, of Connaught Way, Birkenhead, has spent 15 years in and out of prison for targeting pensioners. The 35-year-old molested a child over a six-year period and would kiss the girl on the waist, touch her sexually and perform sex acts on her.Steven Strachan portrayed himself as a legitimate businessman living in a house he had extensively refurbished in Bidston, Wirral. The 31-year-old was jailed for 11 years in 2006 for raping an 18-year-old woman. He was released in 2011.

Drug addict Philip Taylor, 39, of Maybank Road, Birkenhead, threatened to stab a family with a screwdriver. But another man, who was repeatedly assaulted and raped by Phillips from the ages of three until around 14, did not feel able to come forward until after that case concluded.Peter Watson, 74, of Upland Road, Upton, jailed for 15 years for rape and sexual abuse of a young girl. Mr Bates later told police nothing romantic had happened, but couldn't recall why he had removed his shirt after being invited in by Ms Frost following a night out, when she had been crying about her relationship. The court heard Hill had suffered two strokes since committing his crimes and had suffered brain damage. The policy faces a key vote on October 9 as the Conservatives have put forward a motion calling for a review of the policy as well as a potential pause on the rollout of the second phase. The first phase passed with unanimous support. Wirral brothers Joseph Michael Mulhare and his brother Gregory Michael Mulhare, wanted by Merseyside Police, after their arrest in Thailand (Image: Royal Thai Police)

He denied any other wrongdoing, but was found guilty after a trial of five sexual offences in respect of one 13-year-old girl, and two sexual offences in respect of a second girl, also aged 13. On the first occasion, the girl was sleeping in a room with a young child when she woke to find Thomas sexually assaulting her. The Liverpool Echo sends newsletters on a wide range of topics - including our daily news bulletin, now going out three times a day.Stuart Driver QC, defending, asked for a reduced sentence because his client is awaiting a life saving organ transplant. Dowling, of Liscard Road, Wallasey, admitted affray and two counts of possessing a blade in public.

Jailing him for two-and-a-half years, he said: "As a father of a teenage girl, you know better than most the enormous harm that can be done by the commission of offences of this sort. Some of our region's most notorious criminal cases have involved families who flooded the streets with drugs and ruled their neighbourhoods through violence and intimidation. Home Office Criminal Exploitation of Children and Vulnerable Adults: County Lines Guidance– September 2018 Craig Groves, of Campbell Street, Northampton, said he had been in St Helens visiting family and initially denied the offence – but this week admitted attempted robbery at Liverpool Crown Court. A computer geek from Liverpool was jailed for eight years at the Old Bailey for trying to buy deadly ricin poison from the Dark Web after being inspired by the hit US television series Breaking Bad. Software programmer Mohammed Ali, 31, of Prescot Road, Old Swan was found guilty of attempting to possess a chemical weapon.

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Heaton, of Chester Close in Runcorn, forced the boy to perform sex acts and raped him in the auditorium and toilets of Liverpool Cinema. He was with his friend Paul Connell, who previously warned him about holding his wallet up close to his face, to see how much money was inside.