Paul Doyle, who drove into a crowd of celebrating football fans in May, changes plea unexpectedly
A former Royal Marine has pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to injuring 29 people, including two babies, by ploughing his car through the crowd at a Liverpool FC victory parade.
Paul Doyle, 54, deliberately drove his Ford Galaxy at football fans after tailgating an ambulance down a packed road that was closed to non-emergency service vehicles on 26 May.
Footage showed people being thrown into the air as Doyle’s car accelerated rapidly and erratically into the crowd. Onlookers had tried to remove him from the vehicle moments before the collisions.
Merseyside police said 134 people were injured and more than 50 needed hospital treatment, including a number of children. The youngest victims were two babies aged six and seven months at the time.
