Doyle ‘generated horror and chaos’published at 13:18 GMT
Ian Shoesmith
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James Allison, from the Crown Prosecution Service’s Mersey Cheshire region’s Complex Casework Unit, has given his reaction following Doyle’s sentencing hearing.
He said: “In seven minutes of dangerous driving, Doyle, a middle-aged family man, used that vehicle as a weapon hitting more than 100 people, including children, babies and the elderly. When it eventually ended, he had trapped some of them underneath his vehicle.
“He not only injured many people, but he also generated horror and chaos on what was meant to be a day of celebration and joyfulness.
“The reason why he did it? The truth is as simple as it is awful, Paul Doyle lost his temper and, in a rage, drove into people, intending to cause them serious harm.
“The dashcam footage of his journey into Liverpool city centre that day, is truly shocking.
“Before he got to the city centre, he was driving aggressively, undertaking other cars and driving through red lights. As we now know, it was to get much worse.”
