Shocking pics show impact of class A drugs on British criminals now behind bars
SHOCKING photographs reveal the horrifying effects class A drug addiction has on caged criminals’ faces.
From skeletal features and sunken eyes, to fractured lines etched on grey-tinged skin, this harrowing gallery of mugshots shows 13 heroin and crack users currently behind bars.
David Ball
Lifer and crack cocaine addict David Ball, 50, shot dead a dad-of-one with a crossbow.
He’d been on a day-long drugs and alcohol bender before killing Lee Atkins, 38.
Prosecutors said it was a “revenge” attack, after the pair fought outside their friend Kevin Riley’s house, reports the Mirror.
Ball, of Bootle, claimed his crossbow “just went off” and subsequently apologised to Lee.
During his trial, Ball told Richard Pratt, QC, prosecuting, to “shut up”, and later called the lawyer a “f***ing weapon”.
Asked “how did you show you were sorry?” he said: “What do you want me to do? Buy him a box of Milk Tray to say I’m sorry?”
Ball was unanimously found guilty of the murder on May 6 this year, after a 14-day trial.
Leanda O’Hare
Leanda O’Hare, 42, is a heroin addict who was jailed for 12 months for threatening to stab a police officer with a kitchen knife.
The victim, who’d recently become a mum, feared she wouldn’t see her husband or baby again when confronted by “wild” O’Hare “foaming at the mouth”.
O’Hare was sprayed with CS gas and hit with a baton during the incident in Birkenhead on September 30.
But still she managed to escape by climbing over a wall.
Two officers had gone to arrest O’Hare at her home when she kicked off.
The victim described a struggle when O’Hare tried to slam a door on her arm, then to punch and bite her, when they fell to the floor.
O’Hare grabbed a six-inch kitchen knife and yelled “get back or I will stab you” before escaping, despite a further struggle.
She was jailed after admitting assault with intent to resist arrest and possessing a knife in public.
Adele McCarten
The 31-year-old heroin addict was jailed for nine months for sneaking into the Liverpool home of a vulnerable woman with cancer and stealing from her bedroom.
McCarten was caught by a workman and arrested.
She was taken to Royal Liverpool Hospital after cops discovered her legs were covered with ulcers.
Christopher Hopkins, prosecuting, said McCarten tried to escape while at the hospital.
He said: “She went in the ladies toilet, climbed on top of the toilet removed roof tiles and went in the roofspace.
“She rummaged around and fell through the roof back down into the gents toilets, so it wasn’t much of an escape frankly.”
McCarten has 53 convictions for 98 offences.
Dennis Byrom and Mark Wakefield
Dennis Byrom and Mark Wakefield were caught trying to raid a house while equipped with a burglar’s toolkit.
Byrom, 45, and Wakefield, 41, were seen at a property in Runcorn, Cheshire on May 28 this year.
Chester Crown Court heard Wakefield, wearing black gloves, then climbed over a side gate and let Byrom into the empty property.
The pair initially denied any wrongdoing but later admitted attempted burglary and going equipped for burglary.
they were each sentenced to 18 months in jail.
Steven Lloyd and Leon Shaw
“Zombie” drug addicts Steven Lloyd and Leon Shaw smashed their way into Enelle’s Glass House pub in Southport – only to flee when confronted by the brave landlady.
Natasha Daley was woken by the crash of them tipping over a jukebox, before they ransacked two fruit machines and tills.
She watched the incident unfold on a CCTV monitor and called police to give a running commentary.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the pair used a paving slab to smash a window at the pub on Jun 11 this year.
When they kicked down a door leading to her bedroom, Ms Daley screamed and the crooks fled out a fire exit.
They were met by officers, one who described Shaw “sweating profusely and staring into space, almost zombie like”.
Lloyd, of Arlington Close, Hither Green, London, admitted burglary and possessing a bladed article.
Shaw, of Scarisbrick Avenue, Southport, admitted burglary and possessing an offensive weapon.
They were both jailed for 20 months.
Neil McMinn
Heroin addict Neil McMinn was jailed for four and a half years for trying to smuggle £3,000 of heroin into jail by hiding it up his bottom.
He was busted at Wirral Custody Suite after McMinn handed himself in as he knew there was a warrant for his arrest in Kilmarnock for a fraud offence.
McMinn, 39, was searched on November 21.
Cops found two knotted balloons, containing two more balloons, with 50% pure heroin mixed with paracetamol and caffeine.
He admitted possessing the drugs with intent to supply.
Daniel Chadburn
Daniel Chadburn was jailed for three years and four months after repeatedly targeting a disabled OAP’s house while he slept.
The burglar, 28, of no fixed address, continually raided the elderly man’s home in Widnes earlier this year.
On one of the nights, the pensioner awoke to find Chadburn watching programmes in the living room.
Stuart Ogilvie
Heroin addict Stuart Ogilvie, 46, was jailed for three years and four months after robbing a 20-year-old woman at a cash point.
he victim had just finished a night shift and was withdrawing £100 from an ATM in Birkenhead.
Ogilvie, who has 83 convictions for more than 200 offences, admitted attempted robbery and possession of cannabis.
Roy Dewsbury
Heroin addict Roy Dewsbury was arrested for supplying drugs in a car park in Tuebrook, Liverpool.
He was arrested at the scene, while two other men fled.
Merseyside Police confirmed the Force’s Professional Standards Department had launched an investigation.
He was convicted of one count of being concerned in the supply of heroin, and one of supplying cocaine, after a trial.
Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, jailed Dewsbury for two years over the offences on March 13 last year.
Jamie Worrall
Jamie Worrall, 30, stamped to death his former partner’s hamster while trashing her home.
The cocaine addict also carried out two more shocking burglaries last year.
He broke into a pensioner’s property while the victim slept upstairs, then, while on bail for that raid, ransacked a young family’s home.
On that occasion, he helped himself to £400 in cash from their bedroom and £60 from their five and 11-year-old children’s money boxes.
Worrall admitted two counts of burglary, five counts of fraud and being carried in a vehicle taken without consent.
Callum Rose
Teenage Class A drug dealer Callum Rose, 19, mowed down two innocent university students.
Rose ploughed into two young men as they crossed the road with two friends in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving, dangerous driving, as well as breaching a previously suspended sentence.
He was jailed for four-and-a-half years and disqualified from driving for seven years and one month.
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