Paul Doyle bit man’s ear off months before Liverpool attack | UK | News
Liverpool Crown Court heard Paul Doyle had a previous conviction for biting off someone’s ear.
Prosecutor Paul Greaney KC said Doyle was sentenced to 12 months in prison in November 1994 for causing grievous bodily harm after biting another man’s ear in a fight in July last year.
When interviewed by police after the parade incident earlier this year, he said he had been involved in a drunken brawl with sailors.
The court heard the last offenses for which he was convicted before pleading guilty last month were a minor offense of dishonesty and breach of the peace in Scotland in December 1993.
Mr Greaney said Doyle had been convicted of offenses, including serious violence, between the ages of 18 and 22.
He said: “The prosecution accepts that in the 30 years between his release from prison in May 1995 and his horrific actions on 26 May 2025, the defendant took steps to lead a positive and productive life.
“At that time, he was not convicted of any crime, he went to university and worked, including in responsible positions.
“He had a family. These efforts to rehabilitate himself after a difficult early adulthood only serve to make what he did in Liverpool this May all the more shocking and tragic.”
Doyle cried in the dock as Mr. Greaney spoke.
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