Liverpool This Weekend.

[Keith at Tregenna]

It is indeed a great City ---Cheers

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/...a-half-7446577

Like the pool, but love Manchester:

8 reasons Manchester is the best city in the UK

http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/03/8-reas...he-uk-4686538/

[Captain Kong]

Hi Jim
just could not resist sending in these facts of crims in Liverpool..
do not be offended as I am an adopted Liverpool lad, even involved in its most infamous Murders. The Cameo.

Merseyside's dumbest criminals

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BUNGLING criminals who torched a bathtub filled with stolen banknotes surrendered to police – because their “safe house” was engulfed in smoke.

A bath was set on fire as the gang frantically tried to stuff some of the £20,000 stolen from a security guard down the toilet and in drain pipes as armed officers converged outside.

Police swooped on the property in Cherry Lane, Walton, following the brutal daylight robbery of Anthony Forster, a G4S courier who was stabbed in the arm as he tried to deliver the box of cash to the Lloyds TSB branch in Cherryfield Lane, Kirkby.

Michael O’Grady, of Tollerton Road, West Derby, was detained for nine years for being one of two masked men involved in the heist.

William Hunter, of Castlefield Road, Norris Green, was jailed for 32 months for handling stolen goods.

HOUSE burglar Stephen Byrne was caught after leaving a police interview tape at the scene of his crime.

He burgled a house in Southport hours after being arrested for stealing and left the tape recording at the scene of the crime.

Byrne was caught by the householder as he tried to steal her TV and fled when the police arrived. But he left behind his bicycle with his shirt on the handlebars and officers found the tape recorded earlier that day.

He had been arrested the first time for stealing four telephones.

Byrne, formerly of Balmoral Drive, Southport, was jailed for two and a half years.

AN arsonist set his own head on fire as he tried to petrol bomb a rival’s car.

Drug dealer Karl McGarry was enlisted to firebomb two cars just yards from a family home, but set fire to his furry hat when he leaned in through the window of one of them.

To add insult to injury, he set his getaway car on fire when he climbed in with his hat still ablaze.

McGarry was enlisted to carry on a 20-year-old vendetta between two traveller families who had settled in St Helens by carrying out the arson attack.

The Price family and their associates were trying to control the supply of Class A drugs in the town and were not above firing shotguns at and petrol bombing their rivals, the Maughans, also known as the Barrs.

Eight of their number were jailed for a total of 97 years for drug, firearm and arson conspiracies.

EMBARRASSED groom Neil McArdle triggered a bomb scare at his own wedding...so his bride-to-be would not find out he had botched the booking.

He telephoned St George’s Hall to pretend an explosive had been left in the building where he was due to marry and even let his unwitting fiancée turn up in her wedding dress.

Shocked Amy Williams watched in horror as police swarmed over the landmark before being told the venue had never been booked.

McArdle, of Medbourne Crescent, Kirkby, was jailed for a year after admitting making the bomb hoax call from a phone box.

Ms Williams told the ECHO: ”I will never forgive him for humiliating me in front of all my family and friends. I’ll never speak to him again.”

A BANK robber was jailed for six years after he was left dangling from the ceiling by a security shutter.

Michael Byrne threatened staff at the Principality Building Society in Chester city centre with a knife before one of them triggered a screen that shot up from the counter, lifting him 10 feet into the air.

Byrne, from Albert Schweitzer Avenue, Netherton, admitted attempted robbery and the theft of a knife from Boots chemist. He was jailed for six years.

BURGLAR Carl Jackson was found asleep in a house he had broken into in Upton.

Jackson, who was on bail for another burglary, had taken sleeping tablets and downed a can of lager after breaking in.

During the night householder Jacqueline Magee went downstairs for a drink of water and, after spotting him asleep, called the police.

Jackson, of Fairoak Close, Beechwood, was jailed for three-and-a-half years. Stuart Driver, defending, said that they had been amateurish offences which he regretted.

A BUNGLING drug addict who robbed his local off-licence at knifepoint – only to be recognised by the shopkeeper – was jailed for 5½ years.

Andrew Grundy, 44, struck at Sam’s Wines, in Blackbrook Road, St Helens, for cash to help fund his heroin addiction.

He wielded a knife and repeatedly barked “Give me the money” at terrified shop worker Mary Mills before escaping with around £125.

But, unbeknown to Grundy, despite attempts to cover his face, Mrs Mills was able to identify him as the culprit and later picked him out at an identification parade. She told police he was a regular customer at her corner shop – which is just a two-minute walk from his home in Frodsham Drive. He was jailed last week for three and a half years.

WOULD-BE burglar Barry Doyle came dramatically unstuck while trying to break into a house.

As he climbing up a drainpipe it came adrift from the wall and he plunged to the ground in a neighbouring yard, suffering several broken ribs and a punctured lung.

Doyle, of Rhiwas Street, Toxteth, managed to get to his feet and run off but police later tracked him down at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and when he was released he was arrested.

Jailing Doyle for two years, judge Denis Clark told him: “There is no suggestion that there is an ounce of humour in burglary but we all smiled when we heard what happened.”

DIMWITTED thief Christopher Croston was caught by police making his getaway from a robbery – on a forklift truck.

He was stopped as he made a slow dash for freedom from the Rolls Royce complex in Bootle.

And the bungling robber was not difficult to spot – he was wearing a high visibility jacket.

Croston, of Chester Avenue, Netherton, was jailed for six and a half years after Liverpool crown court heard he returned to the scene of the crime weeks later for a follow-up robbery.

Judge Mark Brown told Croston the sentence was issued because of the violence of the robberies.

He said: “The fact you used such a slow and conspicuous getaway vehicle as a forklift truck during the burglary shows how drunk you were.”

[Doc Vernon]

Nothing at all meant against the Great City ,was just posting something that caught my Eye whilst surfing.
Thank you Jim for that explanation on Merseyside etc!
Cheers

[Red Lead Ted]

Tell me, its Sunday Liverpool City Centre today had childrens bands from all over Liverpool playing instruments and singing, We had street entertainers all over the pier head, The weather was glorious, The Albert Dock complex was absolutely awash with people from all over the world. Enjoying the carnival atmosphere, What was the City celebrating, Being Liverpool. Any other city experience the same. Terry.

[Jim Brady]

Brian as your title says Merseysides dumbest criminals.There is a big area covered by Merseyside police not just Liverpool.Incidently a guy committed a crime the other day(can't remember what it was) but he left behind his discharge papers from Walton gaol from only the day before.!!!
Regards.
jim.B.

[j.sabourn]

My immediate memories of Liverpool, were the Overhead Railway, the pubs on the Dock Road, the American Bar and the Legs of Man in the City, the tailors who used to come down to ship when paying off, the police on the gate always expecting 5 Bob along with your gate pass. The porters at Lime Street station always in abundance for any seaman they saw as knew they would get a tip. The nights ashore there cant remember all the pubs, but Yates wine Lodge sticks in memory for some reason. Cheers John S.

[John Pruden]

I knew a lad got done for a container of soap judge told him his lux run out? jp

[Red Lead Ted]

My immediate memories of Liverpool, were the Overhead Railway, the pubs on the Dock Road, the American Bar and the Legs of Man in the City, the tailors who used to come down to ship when paying off, the police on the gate always expecting 5 Bob along with your gate pass. The porters at Lime Street station always in abundance for any seaman they saw as knew they would get a tip. The nights ashore there cant remember all the pubs, but Yates wine Lodge sticks in memory for some reason. Cheers John S.

John they were the days Yates Wine Lodge, Had saw dust on the floor mate. You must remember the Dominion, And the Norseman, Along with many more I could mention Terry p.s. I found this little blog a few weeks ago on the net see how many of the boozers around the world you can remember Regards Terry.

http://www.rhiw.com/y_mor/seamen_bars/bars.htm

[John Pruden]

marian another lad got done for throwing demestos over a vicar he was done for a bleach of the priest?? jp

[Dennis McGuckin]

Remember one morning in Yates.A guy came in and was shaking badly.
The bartender obviously knew him.
He pored him a shot of something, and gave him a bar towel.
The shaky guy put the towel round his shoulders, one end of which went to the hand with the glass, the other end he pulled on.
Hench the glass rose to his mouth with a steady hand.
Never saw that before or since.
Now if only I could remember what I was doing there at opening time!