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Neighbours of Liverpool FC parade crash driver Paul Doyle painted a picture of "Mr Healthy Dude" as they described the impact of the case on their close-knit community. Doyle appeared in court today ahead of the prosecution's opening in his trial, which had been estimated to last between three and four weeks.

Today he admitted to driving the Ford Galaxy car into Liverpool FC fans on Water Street on May 26 this year. Speaking after the guilty pleas were entered, Merseyside's chief crown prosecutor Sarah Hammond said : "Driving a vehicle into a crowd is an act of calculated violence. This was not a momentary lapse by Paul Doyle — it was a choice he made that day and it turned celebration into mayhem."

The ECHO has spoken to people who knew Doyle as a ne

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