A former royal marine was jailed today for 21 years after mowing down crowds at the Liverpool victory parade – as newly released footage showed the moments leading up to the terrifying attack which left 134 people injured.

Paul Doyle, 54, a married father-of-three, from Croxteth, Liverpool, tried to lie that he ‘panicked’ and drove the car into the crowd out of fear for his own life on May 26.

But the truth, captured on his own dashcam and in CCTV footage, shows that he lost his temper and deliberately drove his car as a ‘weapon’ in a fit of rage.

For the first time, Doyle can be heard calling fans ‘f***ing pr****’ and beeping his horn, as he furiously ploughed into crowds celebrating the club’s Premier League title win on Water Street in Liverpool city centre.

Sentencing judge Andrew Menary KC told Doyle he acted in an ‘inexplicable and undiluted fury’ in those fateful moments.

‘It is almost impossible to comprehend how any right-thinking person could act as you did. To drive a vehicle into crowds of pedestrians with such persistence and disregard for human life defies ordinary understanding,’ he said.

Doyle – who had been sobbing throughout his two-day sentencing hearing – did not react as he was handed a jail term of 21 years and six months.

He will serve two-thirds of that in custody and will also be banned from driving for three years after his release – despite victims’ calls for him to be handed a lifetime disqualification.

Today, as Doyle was sentenced to prison it emerged:

Far from the ‘family man’ he painted himself to be, Doyle had a number of previous convictions and was discharged from the military for assault;
In 1994, Doyle was jailed for 12 months after biting off a sailor’s ear during a drunken brawl;
A terror attack victim, cancer survivor, Ukrainian refugee and six-month-old baby were among the 134 people injured during the rampage;
The carnage only stopped when hero ex-soldier Daniel Barr opened the car doorand put the automatic gearstick into park mode – despite Doyle continuing to push the accelerator.

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This is the horrifying moment an ex-royal marine screamed ‘move, get out the f***ing way’ as he mowed down Liverpool fans with his car at a victory parade

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Paul Doyle has been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court after driving into football fans in May

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Doyle previously pleaded guilty to 31 offences relating to seriously injuring people during the victory parade in May. He injured a total of 134 people in seven minutes

He previously pleaded guilty to 31 offences relating to seriously injuring people during the victory parade in May.

Prosecutors said in the space of two minutes, his Ford Galaxy – which weighed nearly two tonnes – collided with ‘well over 100 people’.

The 29 victims named in the indictment ranged in age from six-month-old Teddy Eveson, whose pram was thrown in the air in the crash, to 77-year-old Susan Passey.

In bodycam footage released today, Doyle can be heard saying ‘my life’s ruined now’ as he sat in a police van following the rampage.

He continued to tell officers: ‘It’s ruined so many people’s lives, that. That’s just ruined and affected so many lives.’

During sentencing, Doyle was described as a ‘man in a rage whose anger had completely taken hold of him.’

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An artist’s sketch of Paul Doyle as he was today sentenced to 21 years and six months in prison

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Footage shows the moment Doyle was detained by police

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Doyle’s sentencing hearing was told the 54-year-old was ‘in a rage’ and his ‘anger had completely taken hold of him’

Earlier in the day, Doyle had travelled to the city centre from his home some six miles away in Croxteth, Liverpool, to drop off a friend to celebrate Liverpool FC’s victory.

But on the way home, Doyle began to start driving more aggressively and erratically, undertaking other vehicles and jumping lanes.

At 5.29pm he set off again to collect his friend. Footage showed Doyle driving down Dale Street, appearing not to slow down despite Liverpool fans filling the roads.

His dashcam footage captured him shouting ‘it’s a f***ing road’ and calling fans ‘p****s’ as a shocked-looking man puts his foot on the car’s bumper and pulled his small child out of the way.

By this point, prosecutors say Doyle was starting to lose his temper. When he reached a line of cars turning right, away from Water Street which was closed to traffic, he paused before swerving into crowds filling the left lane.

People could be seen on the bonnet of his car and falling underneath as Doyle accelerated into the street.

His car was only brought to a stop when fan Daniel Barr climbed into the back seat of the automatic vehicle and held the gearstick in park mode.

Daniel Barr jumped into the back of Paul Doyle’s car and applied the hand brake

After sentencing, ex-solider Mr Barr insisted he is not a hero, saying countless other Liverpool supporters would have done the same thing.

Mr Barr, who did tours of Iraq where his role included searching for improvised explosive devices, jumped into the back of the 54-year-old’s car as he began mowing down fans streaming away from last May’s victory parade and grabbed the gearstick.

Mr Barr spoke of how he shoved it into ‘park’ and held it there even as the raging father-of-three kept revving the engine.

‘He had no chance, he wasn’t going to move my arm,’ the 41-year-old said, adding that Doyle would have had to ‘chop it off’.

Describing his mindset as ‘Get amongst it, do something’, he said anyone with the opportunity to intervene would have done the same.

‘If they could have, they would have.’

And the lifelong Liverpool fan described the horror at feeling the two-ton people carrier ‘going over’ terrified families, ‘sailing through’ as if there was ‘no resistance at all from the people’.

Doyle, who has previous convictions for violence in the 1990s, continued to try to accelerate but the car, which had people trapped underneath it by this point, was unable to move further.

When interviewed, he said he had seen someone with a knife and drove in panic for fear he would be attacked, but police found no evidence from CCTV or witnesses that anyone in the area had a knife.

No defects were found with the car and Doyle was not under the influence of drink or drugs.

He initially denied all 31 offences he was charged with but last month, moments before the prosecution was due to open his trial, he changed his pleas.

James Allison, from the Crown Prosecution Service Mersey-Cheshire, said: ‘Why did he do it? I think the simple answer is he lost his temper. He went into a rage.

‘He just wanted to get down that road, and in trying to get down that road those next couple of minutes probably devastated a lot of people’s lives.’

Detective Chief Inspector John Fitzgerald said: ‘Doyle’s total disregard for the safety of others-particularly the many young children present on Dale Street and Water Street that day-is beyond comprehension.

‘It is sheer luck that no lives were lost.’

He added that the dashcam footage – which is not being released due to its upsetting nature – was ‘the most distressing and graphic’ he had come across in his 20 years of policing.