A man accused of “using his car as a weapon” by deliberately driving into crowds of Liverpool FC fans has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges. <\/p>\n
More than 130 people, including eight children, were injured when a Ford Galaxy car struck pedestrians on Water Street in Liverpool City Centre, as fans celebrated the club’s Premier League victory parade on 26 May. <\/p>\n
Former Royal Marine Commando Paul Doyle, 53, faces charges including causing grievous bodily harm with intent and dangerous driving. <\/p>\n
He appeared at Liverpool Crown Court via videolink from prison where he answered “not guilty” as each of the charges were put to him. <\/p>\n
The charges against Mr Doyle, of Burghill Road in West Derby, Liverpool, include allegations relating to two babies. <\/p>\n
The court heard his legal team had faced significant difficulties being allowed access to their client in prison, facing weeks-long waits to visit him in person or hold conferences over videolink. <\/p>\n
Simon Csoka, KC, defending, said: “The system just isn’t working.”<\/p>\n
He also said Belmarsh Prison had still not arranged for Mr Doyle to be given a laptop in custody so he could view CCTV footage and other digital evidence. <\/p>\n
Mr Csoka said the prison’s approach had been “incomprehensible” and the defence had faced “impenetrable red tape” in getting a laptop to Mr Doyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of “using his car as a weapon” by deliberately driving into crowds of Liverpool FC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115145520839167076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}