Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram reacts to Paul Doyle's sentencing

Reacting to the sentencing of Paul Doyle to more than 20 years for driving his car into the crowd at the Liverpool FC victory parade, Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said:

“Today will hopefully bring some measure of closure to the victims whose lives were changed by one man's reckless actions on what should have been a day of celebration.

“Nothing can undo the physical and emotional trauma that many people will continue to live with. But it's important that anyone affected knows support is still available - not just now, but in the months and years ahead.

“I want to thank Merseyside Police and all the emergency services for their professionalism and compassion in the immediate aftermath. And I want to pay tribute to the ordinary people of our city who ran towards danger - helping strangers, offering first aid, opening their homes, and doing whatever they could in the moments that mattered most. Their collective response showed the very best of our region at such a difficult time."