May 30 (UPI) -- The man charged with ramming a vehicle into a crowd at a cup victory parade for Liverpool Football Club and injuring 79 peopel appeared in court on Friday.
Prosecutor Philip Astbury said it was the prosecution's case that 53-year-old Paul Doyle, a former Royal Marine and now a businessman, "deliberately drove" into the crowd in Liverpool city center as people were leaving at the end of the parade.
Astbury asked that Doyle, who is from the West Derby area of Liverpool, not be granted bail for his own safety.
Doyle faces seven counts related to Monday's incident involving six victims, two of them children, including two wounding with intent charges, two grievous bodily harm with intent charges, two attempted grievous bodily harm with intent charges and a single dangerous driving charge.
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