The Liverpool Parade - Road Rage
The Trial
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Caroline and Liz have the reason football fans were knocked down “like skittles” by a former marine. It was road rage. Paul Doyle was driving through the city as dozens of people celebrated Liverpool FCs League title, but he grew agitated that families wouldn’t get out of his way and he ploughed into them in his Ford Galaxy. Today as he dramatically changed his pleas to guilty we have all the details from the court.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the trial UK, the Liverpool Parade. I'm Caroline Cheatham. And I'm Liz |
| 0:11.9 | Hull. Today, a dramatic day in Liverpool as a former Marine has admitted driving his car into football fans as they celebrated the Premier League title in May |
| 0:23.5 | this year. Yeah, so after six months of denials, Paul Doyle today dramatically changed his pleas |
| 0:30.5 | and admitted 31 charges against him. His actions that day were prompted by rage as he became more and more agitated at the fans |
| 0:40.0 | who were in his way. He waved in and out of the traffic, jumped to red lights and then swore |
| 0:46.2 | repeatedly at people enjoying their day and ultimately he plowed into them. |
| 0:52.0 | 134 people were hurt, |
| 0:54.8 | four even ended up under his wheels |
| 0:56.9 | and the car was eventually stopped by one of the fans. |
| 1:01.2 | Welcome to this special episode of the trial, |
| 1:03.9 | Road Rage. So Liz, as we said, a dramatic day in court, a dramatic two days in court, actually. You and I have been here this week in Liverpool. We're now sitting in a little office, just overlooking the court where we've been for the last 48 hours, really. And it was a dramatic day. We were gearing up, as ever, for one of our trials. We were going to cover this case every day as we do on |
| 1:46.5 | the trial podcast. And then things all changed today. This was about 11 o'clock this morning. We're |
| 1:51.8 | all in court. Court 4-1 was packed with press and family members, family members of the people |
| 1:58.9 | who were hit that day and also his, Paul Doyle's, |
| 2:03.0 | family members as well, police, prosecutors, defence teams, the judge even, a really packed court. |
| 2:09.6 | And then at 11 o'clock, we got a hint that something was changing. So yesterday, the jury was |
| 2:15.9 | sworn in. So we should just say that. The jury was sworn in. So we should just say that. |
| 2:19.0 | The jury was sworn in. |
| 2:20.1 | So we were all good to go. |
| 2:24.0 | We were all, yeah, we were all expecting this trial to start quite promptly because the tricky bit often in one of these big high profile trials is, you know, |
| 2:29.5 | to get the 12, 14 members of the jury because we always have two spares, actually. 14 members of the jury, because we always have two spares, actually. |
| 2:35.6 | 14 members of the jury sworn in. And on Monday, they were sent home with a really lengthy |
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