Doyle started his career as a Royal Marine but in later years was designing and selling caps
15:08, 26 Nov 2025Updated 16:24, 26 Nov 2025
Paul Doyle, 54, from West Derby.(Image: Facebook)
Liverpool parade crash driver Paul Doyle overstated his length of service in the Royal Marines, the ECHO understands. Doyle, who ploughed his car through a crowd of Liverpool fans in May, served for one year and 10 months — but stated online that he was in the Commandos for more than four years.
Paul Desmond Sanders Doyle‘s online presence reveals him to be a gamer, skateboarder and ‘ethical hacker’, as well as a follower of prominent right-wing ringleaders, who was apparently swept up in a crypto scheme that declared bankruptcy amid major fraud allegations.
Doyle, 54, of leafy Burghill Road, a cul-de-sac in West Derby, pleaded guilty on the second day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court today.
Doyle, a married dad, overstates his length of service in the Royal Marines in his Linkedin profile, saying he served with the Commandos for four years and four months between March 1990 and June 1994 — but the ECHO understands Doyle was in the Marines for just one year and 10 months from March 1991 to January 1993.
The practical minimum service length for Royal Marines is four years after eight months basic training, at which point they can give their commanding officer 12 months notice before being transferred to the reserve. Doyle joined aged 19, and was just 21 when he found himself out of the forces.
Doyle’s mugshot released(Image: CPS)
According to his Linkedin profile, Doyle enrolled in a psychology and maths course at the University of Liverpool in September 1995, graduating with a Bachelor of Science three years later. The then 26-year-old Doyle found a job as a manager at McDonald’s, before filling a series of roles in IT.
This included a stint in the famous mirrored Littlewoods Data Centre at the corner of Old Hall Street and Leeds Street in the early noughties. Doyle worked in the IT department of Mersey Care NHS Trust for four years as a Network Team Leader, and later as a cyber security manager at Rathbones Group, a London-based wealth management firm.
In January 2020, Doyle became a ‘certified ethical hacker’ after taking a course with the EC-Council, an Albuquerque-based training firm. The same month Doyle left Rathbones, he listed himself on Linkedin as a ‘volunteer ethical hacker’ for a group called ‘Honest Hackers’. He also listed himself as ‘Acting Head of Cyber’ at a firm called ‘Hyper Scale Data Centre’, a firm the ECHO has not been able to find.
Doyle also set up a series of businesses that have since been dissolved, including Runcool Ltd., set up with a neighbour in West Derby in 2016 and selling sports goods; and a solo venture called FarOut Caps.
The social media for FarOut Caps shows pictures of the snapback caps, as well as videos of Doyle skateboarding around Croxteth Park. One image shows a waxwork of Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel donning one of Doyle’s collectable designer caps, which he sold for £15-a-piece. The image was posted in November 2024.
Doyle shared an image of one of the caps he designed on a waxwork of Vin Diesel.
Others appear to show Doyle’s travels, including to Dubai, and to the Alps for a snowboarding trip. Doyle appears to have used the firm’s Twitter/X account as his own personal page, posting about video game Fortnite and various crypto coins.
Doyle followed just 11 accounts, but counted among that number are Reform leader Nigel Farage, former Trump ally and head of DOGE Elon Musk, and self-proclaimed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate.
Doyle refers to his stint in the Marines on the account, saying in a reply: “As a former Marine myself, I salute you sir.”
Doyle tweets fervently about cryptocurrencies. On March 24, 2022, Doyle tweeted 40 times about cryptocurrency SafeMoon.
He says he has held SafeMoon for over a year, and talks of buying more. SafeMoon declared bankruptcy in December 2023 after the firm and its executive team were charged with fraud by authorities in the US.
An image shared by Doyle appears to show him wearing one of the caps he designed.
SafeMoon has been compared to a ponzi-scheme by financial commentators. The coin reached an all-time high market cap of $17bn in 2021.
Of more than 3,000 tweets from the account, a comfortable majority refer in some way to SafeMoon, usually in reply to other tweets as Doyle promotes the cryptocoin.
He later posts about cryptocurrency Grove Coin, complaining of the fee charged for transactions, writing: “2023 won’t be amazing for people who have staked their assets with you.
“What is the point in staking when you stand to lose 40%? This is only for $100, I have staked more in the 60, 90 and 180 day options, how much will I be charged for that?”
On the FarOut Caps website, Doyle wrote: “I started FarOut Caps in 2017 as I had always loved wearing caps, and just wanted to create my own. I set about drafting multiple logo’s and designs and finally settled on a small range and logo.
“I then borrowed finances and set up the company along with my virtual shop. I doubt I will ever be able to afford a lambo, but it genuinely makes me happy when I make a sale as it means that somebody actually likes my designs.”
Through the Twitter page, Doyle often links out to a Youtube account, fis30, which contains 645 videos, the vast majority of which cover the first-person shooter video game Fortnite, with a smattering of videos about the SafeMoon scheme. The videos span 2019 to 2023, and include daily ‘unboxing’ videos of digital items from the in-game shop, and videos of gameplay.
Doyle also tweets out images of characters from the game as he promotes the now-defunct Youtube page for FarOut Caps. Fortnite is a popular game among Gen Z gamers.