Father-of-three charged over Liverpool parade crash

A father-of-three and erstwhile Royal Marine has been charged pursuing the Liverpool parade clang successful which 79 radical were injured.

Paul Doyle, 53, from Burghill Road successful West Derby, was arrested connected Monday, erstwhile a car ploughed into fans attending Liverpool's Premier League triumph celebration, Merseyside Police confirmed.

A nine-year-old was among those injured erstwhile the car Mr Doyle is alleged to person been driving crashed into supporters astatine 18:00 BST connected Water Street.

The section businessman faces aggregate counts of causing, and attempting to origin unlawful and malicious grievous bodily harm with intent arsenic good arsenic 1 of unsafe driving and 2 counts of unlawful and malicious wounding with intent.

Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims, of Merseyside Police, told a quality league 7 radical stay successful infirmary aft the incident.

Mr Doyle is acceptable to look astatine Liverpool Magistrates' Court connected Friday.

The BBC has spoken to the suspect's neighbours, who said they were shocked and successful "disbelief".

They said that Burghill Road was swarming with constabulary successful the hours aft the crash.

One said: "I came retired precocious connected Monday nighttime and there's constabulary everywhere. Looking astir each the houses, truthful I had a thought - ideate if it was him?"

Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims said detectives were reviewing a "huge volume" of CCTV and mobile telephone footage.

Sarah Hammond, Chief Crown Prosecutor for Crown Prosecution Service successful the Mersey-Cheshire region, said this included footage from CCTV, mobile phones, businesses and dashcams, on with witnesser statements.

She said the charges "will beryllium kept nether review" portion the probe progresses.

"It is important to guarantee each unfortunate gets the justness they deserve," she added.

Mr Doyle has been charged with 7 offences, which tin beryllium breached down into 4 groups.

The archetypal includes 2 counts of wounding with intent to origin grievous bodily harm (GBH) – 1 of these is an alleged offence against 1 child.

The 2nd is 2 counts of causing unlawful and malicious GBH with intent to origin grievous bodily harm.

According to the Sentencing Council, it relates to the quality of the wounded allegedly caused.

GBH does not necessitate an unfastened coiled to person been suffered. Wounding requires the victim's tegument to person been broken.

Mr Doyle besides faces 2 charges of attempted unlawful and malicious GBH with intent to origin GBH, and again 1 of these alleged offences relates to a child.

The last number is unsafe driving.

Police confirmed the ages of those injured successful the incidental ranged from 9 to 78.

Assistant Chief Constable Sims, said she understood galore person questions astir the incident, and detectives were "working tirelessly, with diligence and professionalism, to question the reply to each of those questions".

"When we are capable to, we volition supply further information," she added.