Locals have told what it was like to grow up alongside one of Britain's most feared gangsters, providing disturbing new insights into his capacity for savage violence.
Paul 'Woody' Woodford, a member of the hated Huyton Firm, has convictions for violent offences in Liverpool and mainland Europe stretching back three decades.
These include acts of almost unimaginable sadism, such as walking into a woman's house and scalping her - seemingly for no reason.
While Woodford is now in prison serving a 24-year sentence for drug and firearms offences, residents of the Netherton Park Estate near Aintree remain too scared to even speak his name.
Woodford began his reign of terror there during the 1980s, when Merseyside was being ravaged by economic and social problems linked to the decline of its port.
