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Liverpool parade attacker

86 replies

IthinkIamAnAlien · 15/12/2025 12:29

I don't know where else to paste this, it's about a guy, not drunk or on drugs but stressed who lost it and rammed through people in a crowd. He's on trial.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8xd97z0k00t

I find myself thinking that it's absolutely an example of the state of our roads, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

Where I live, edge of the Cotswolds, the roads are jammed and people break the rules all the time, not giving way, especially on roundabouts, speeding, cutting in where there isn't space, tail gating, flashing lights, using mobile phones while driving, just generally pushing their way through. The size of modern cars with their horrendous, blinding headlights doesn't help, nor do all the potholes. And then there's the anti cyclist rage which is usually pointless and nitpicking.

Round our way, cows on the local common get mown down by hit and run drivers. I'm afraid I get this guy. Apparently he keeps crying in the dock, I feel sorry for him

Liverpool parade attacker sentencing live: Paul Doyle hit baby's pram as he drove into crowd

An "out of control" Paul Doyle was "completely sober" when he ploughed into football fans.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8xd97z0k00t

OP posts:
didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 15/12/2025 12:32

This is the most unhinged post. What are you talking about?

Hoppinggreen · 15/12/2025 12:33

I don't feel sorry for him in the slightest
I do wonder what made him do it though, at first I thought that maybe he had made a mistake trying to get through traffic/crowds and then panicked but the more I read about it I just can't get my head around it
Maybe just another angry entitled man who lost his temper when things din't go the way he wanted

Flowerslamp · 15/12/2025 12:33

I don't think it's as simple as he lost it with the crowds. He'd been driving erratically before he met the crowds, and some of the dangerous driving charges come from camera footage from that period, before he got "stuck" in the crowd.

Initially I had some sympathy, in that whether by arrogance or stupidty, being surrounded by that crowd must have been scary, but having read more fully, I don't think that's what happened.

TeenageSu1cideDontDoit · 15/12/2025 12:33

How can you feel sorry for him? He rammed into a massive crowd of people! The roads were closed for the parade! It was well sign posted and documented. He lost it and now he's paying the consequences. There's no excuse for what he did.

Seagull4a · 15/12/2025 12:34

It’s an example of male violence. Why would you even post this OP?

StabbyCat · 15/12/2025 12:34

You feel sorry for him??

Christ 🙄😡

HoneyParsnipSoup · 15/12/2025 12:37

TeenageSu1cideDontDoit · 15/12/2025 12:33

How can you feel sorry for him? He rammed into a massive crowd of people! The roads were closed for the parade! It was well sign posted and documented. He lost it and now he's paying the consequences. There's no excuse for what he did.

This. There is no trial. He’s pleaded guilty.

clary · 15/12/2025 12:38

You have got to be kidding @IthinkIamAnAlien

Don't you remember this happening? It was horrific. It's not about potholes in the road. You feel sorry for him? words fail me.

PullTheBricksDown · 15/12/2025 12:40

It was really scary to realise that he obviously felt so overcome by anger that he drove at people and kept driving. There's a load of shit talked in court cases in defence of men who 'lost control' 'moment of anger' yet this went on for longer. Supposed to feel sorry for them are we? It's amazing they're allowed to be out in society. This one won't be after the case concludes. Why are none of them able to do the supposedly male 'rational' thing, take a deep breath and stop?

The people I do feel sorry for are his wife and kids. Read that one of the neighbours asked if it was their car and she burst into tears and said yes. Their lives in that area are ruined.

Justlostmybagel · 15/12/2025 12:41

"I'm afraid I get this guy." Wtf. Are you saying that you think that you're at risk of snapping and mowing down pedestrians??

deltapanda · 15/12/2025 12:43

The road was completely closed to traffic. He tailgated an ambulance. This wasn’t a matter of a bit of heavy traffic, he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the crowd in the first place. He made a lot of unfathomable choices with apparently no excuse to explain them whatsoever.

IdaGlossop · 15/12/2025 12:43

Seagull4a · 15/12/2025 12:34

It’s an example of male violence. Why would you even post this OP?

This

Newyearsameme26 · 15/12/2025 12:43

So was it all because he was pissed off at having to drive his friend and family into town? He was calm and chatty and then dropped them off and started driving erratically - is that right? Was that his true character?

Livpool · 15/12/2025 12:43

I don’t feel sorry for him no, I am in Liverpool and attended the parade in another part of the city. He was way beyond reckless. Also, he isn’t on trial. It was due to start a few weeks ago but then he changed his plea to guilty

RaininSummer · 15/12/2025 12:45

Bizarre post. So you having a bad day and it's suddenly ok to try to kill people?

Sarahconnor1 · 15/12/2025 12:48

He tailgated an ambulance through road closures. Rather than stopping when he realised, he started to ram the crowd including children.

He has plead guilty. Sentencing today.

Taweofterror · 15/12/2025 12:48

I don't get where you're coming from at all. This was nothing to do with the state of our roads and even if it was how the hell does that justify killing innocent people?!

ThisAutumnTown · 15/12/2025 12:48

He nearly killed several children and you feel BAD for him??
Shocking.

HelpMeGetThrough · 15/12/2025 12:49

I think the overused MN phrase fits for your post OP.

”Are you on glue?”

KidsDoBetter · 15/12/2025 12:50

HelpMeGetThrough · 15/12/2025 12:49

I think the overused MN phrase fits for your post OP.

”Are you on glue?”

Literally this.

wtf.

TomatoSandwiches · 15/12/2025 12:50

It had nothing to do with the roads, he is just another entitled male with anger issues, hopefully he will get the required help to address them in prison where he belongs.

Give your head several wobbles.

Needmorelego · 15/12/2025 12:51

So road rage is ok because there's a lot of traffic and potholes which are annoying 🤔
Errrrr..... very strange thinking.

smallglassbottle · 15/12/2025 12:51

If you're not capable of keeping it together then you shouldn't have a licence to drive. Driving is far more than controlling the car and navigating the roads. Drivers need to be able to handle stress, frustration, tiredness and boredom, as well as deal calmly with the behaviour of others on the road.

Abracadabrador · 15/12/2025 12:53

Pretty embarrassing for you to feel sorry for a violent male.
He was screaming 'get out of the fucking way' and 'fucking p×××s' as he deliberately rammed in to hundreds of people. His own dash cam footage proved he chose to use his vehicle as a weapon.

Crabwoman · 15/12/2025 12:53

The footage is being played in court now. He didn't loose it over a few potholes or the state of the roads. He is shown driving aggressively and swearing at people to get out the way. There is no trial, he plead guilty.

He drove into Liverpool knowing there would be close to a million people in the town centre. Tried to get down closed roads, tailgated an ambulance and then lost it at the crowds. I was there, walked down that road 5 mind before and it you could not move for people, I have no idea what he was thinking.

I don't feel sorry for him in the slightest. I do feel very sorry for his family.