Key Highlights
- “You struck people head-on, knocked others onto the bonnet, drove over limbs, crushed prams and forced those nearby to scatter in terror," Judge Andrew Menary told Doyle in Liverpool Crown Court.
- “You plowed on at speed and over a considerable distance, violently knocking people aside or simply driving over them, person after person after person." Prosecutors said Doyle flew into a fury because he couldn’t get where he was going fast enough to pick up friends who had attended the parade.
- Doyle sobbed during much of the two-day sentencing as prosecutors detailed the crime, using graphic video footage and reading emotional statements from dozens of victims.
- The 54-year-old pleaded guilty last month to 31 counts, including dangerous driving and multiple counts of attempting or causing grievous bodily harm and intentional wounding.
- The victims ranged in age from a 6-month-old boy who was miraculously unharmed when his mother was struck and his baby carriage was tossed aside to a 77-year-old woman pinned under the car in a pool of blood.
