TA: Perpetrator who drove and hit someone at Liverpool s championship celebration faced 24 new charges
53-year-old Paul Doyle attended a Liverpool Criminal Court hearing via video on Thursday, and the court confirmed that 23 additional charges of personal injury and 1 count of fighting against him. The prosecution disclosed some new charges involving victims of only infants at the time of the incident, one of whom was six months old and the other seven months old.
Doyle, who was emotionally excited and took several deep breaths during the trial, had been charged with two counts of intentional injury and two counts of intentional serious bodily injury, and also faced two counts of attempting to cause serious bodily injury and dangerous driving.
On May 26, Liverpool's team was on a convertible bus to hold a championship parade in the city center, a Ford Galaxy crashed into more than 100 pedestrians on Water Street, resulting in 50 people being sent to the hospital for treatment.
Because the defense successfully claimed that Doyle "appeared in court the day after receiving the indictment, which made it impossible to judge the evidence", the defense hearing originally scheduled to be rescheduled to September 4 in Liverpool Criminal Court. The defendant from Liverpool's West Derby area will then be tried for three to four weeks on November 28.