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A former Royal Marine has been jailed for more than 21 years for mowing down dozens of Liverpool<\/a> football fans in a \u201ctruly shocking\u201d act that \u201cdefies ordinary understanding\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Doyle, 54, bowed his head as he was sentenced at Liverpool crown court where victims and their families watched, some in tears, from the public gallery.<\/p>\n Merseyside police said it was a \u201cmiracle\u201d that no one was killed when the father of three used his vehicle \u201cas a weapon\u201d in a moment of rage<\/a> at a victory parade in the city on 26 May.<\/p> Footage from Doyle\u2019s two-tonne Ford Galaxy showed him accelerating aggressively towards crowds, hitting 134 people in only two minutes. Some suffered life-changing injuries and many were left traumatised.<\/p>\n Doyle, from Aintree in Liverpool, told police he acted in a \u201cblind panic\u201d and claimed he feared for his life after seeing a fan with a knife. This was disproved by detectives. He pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial last month to 31 offences against 21 adults and eight children.<\/p>\n Sentencing Doyle to 21 years and six months in prison, judge Andrew Menary KC said his actions caused \u201chorror and devastation on a scale not previously experienced by this court\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cYou struck people head on, knocked others onto the bonnet, crushed prams and forced others to scatter in terror,\u201d the judge said. \u201cYou ploughed on at speed, violently knocking people aside or running over them, person after person after person.\u201d<\/p>\n Menary said dash-cam footage from Doyle\u2019s vehicle showed he was not acting in fear or panic, as he claimed, but out of \u201can inexplicable and undiluted fury\u201d.<\/p> His \u201cdisregard for human life defies ordinary understanding,\u201d Menary said, adding: \u201cIt is almost impossible to comprehend how any right thinking person could act as you did\u201d.<\/p>\n It can now be revealed that Doyle had a string of convictions in the early 1990s \u2013 including one for biting off a man\u2019s ear in a pub brawl \u2013 but that he had not been in trouble with the police for 30 years until he was arrested at the parade.<\/p>\n Some of those injured were left in tears as dashcam video from Doyle\u2019s car showed him speeding towards terrified supporters while shouting \u201cfucking pricks\u201d and \u201cfucking move\u201d.<\/p>\n The defendant could be heard shouting \u201cfuck\u2019s sake move! Get out my fucking way!\u201d before ploughing into screaming fans. A police officer described the noise as \u201csickening\u201d.<\/p>\n As bodies lay on the ground, Doyle\u2019s rampage was brought to a halt by a former soldier, Dan Barr, who climbed into a rear passenger seat and held the car\u2019s gear selector in \u201cpark\u201d. Even then, Doyle kept his foot on the accelerator, the court heard.<\/p>\n When Doyle was dragged into a police van through a swarm of angry fans, he told officers: \u201cI\u2019ve just ruined my family\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n The court heard on Tuesday that those struck by Doyle\u2019s car were aged from six months to 77 years and included a victim of the Manchester Arena terror attack in 2017.<\/p>\n Francesca Massey, 24, said the parade had \u201creopened emotional wounds\u201d and brought back vivid memories from eight years ago: \u201cThe same overwhelming fear, the moment of stillness before chaos and the desperate rush to escape with the crowd of innocent people around me.\u201d<\/p>\n She added: \u201cThis is something I felt I had overcome over the past eight years, and now I feel like I have been set back again, as it reawakened previous trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n Simon Csoska KC, defending, said Doyle was \u201chorrified by what he did, horrified by the consequences of what he did\u201d. \u201cHe\u2019s remorseful, ashamed and deeply sorry for all those who were hurt and suffered. He accepts all responsibility, he expects no sympathy.\u201d<\/p>\n However, he said the attacks by fans on his car were \u201cunderstandable in the circumstances given the manner of his driving [but] must have been inherently frightening\u201d: \u201cOnce he continued to drive serious injury was inevitable\u201d.<\/p>\n Csoska said Doyle had been described by friends as \u201ckind, generous and selfless\u201d and found his actions \u201cincomprehensible and so utterly unlike the man that they know\u201d.<\/p>\n He asked for the sentence to be proportionate to the injuries he cause which, he said, were \u201cnot as grave as they might have been\u201d although that did not diminish the suffering. This was not a \u201cdeeply calculated act\u201d and desire to cause serious injury, he added, but was \u201centirely unexpected and incomprehensible\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A former Royal Marine has been jailed for more than 21 years for mowing down dozens of Liverpool football fans in a \u201ctruly shocking\u201d act that \u201cdefies ordinary understanding\u201d. 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