A 23-year-old has been remanded in custody after officers spotted two Sur-Ron motorbikes being ridden on pavements and the wrong side of the road on Arrowe Park Road. Joel Carrol, from Liscard, was charged with dangerous driving, driving with no insurance, and other charges.
A man was charged with breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and another with drug offences after Merseyside Police used live facial recognition technology on Grange Road. Police deployed the technology in Birkenhead town centre on September 5 from 10:30 am to 5 pm.
Callum McGinn, 27, of Home Farm Road, Woodchurch, was banned from driving for three years after he was caught drug driving. He was sentenced on September 4. He was found to be riding his quad bike in January and was found to have 50 micrograms of benzoylecgonine in his system.
Leon Jones, now 20, from Woodchurch was arrested in July 2024 for allegedly driving his Sur-Ron bike at a police officer. The case was dropped, but he was arrested again for the November 2024 incident in which he killed his 17-year-old friend in a collision between their bikes.
A man and woman suffered minor injuries following a collision on Barnston Road on Sunday afternoon. A tricycle and a car collided in Thingwall, and police were called to the scene around 3:10 pm on 6 September.
38-year-old Kyle Murphy has been charged with theft of a pedal cycle, theft from a shop, and three breaches of court bail conditions after a reported bike theft on August 8. The bike was stolen outside a shop on Thingwall Road in Irby.
Leon Jones, 20, from Upton, was jailed for five years for causing the death of his best friend, Spencer Crofts, 17. The event happened in November 2024 when the two were doing 'prolonged wheelies' on Hoole Road on November 30 and collided.
Robert McGivney, 46, from Tranmere, was handed a 12-week prison sentence suspended for a year after being caught drug driving in December 2025 on Grovesnor Road in Birkenhead.
Seven males have now been arrested following the incident on Telegraph Road in early July, which left two teenage boys with knife injuries. Four more were arrested on 27 August, three 15-year-olds and one 16-year-old, all from the Wirral.
Wesley Hughes, 47, was stopped on the A500 in Stoke-on-Trent with 12 one-kilogramme bricks of cocaine hidden in his van. The drugs were estimated to be worth £1.8 million. For the offence, Hughes was jailed for five years and ten months.
Haneef Chowdhury, 29, was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court after a masked gang threatened a family, including a young child, in their Borough Road home. The burglary happened in 2022, and the thieves took jewellery and cash from the property.
William Harrington of Linksway in Wallasey has pleaded not guilty to multiple fraud and unfair trading charges brought by Wirral Council on behalf of his neighbour. Harrington had 16 charges against him related to home improvement works he was doing for Helen McGee.
A 36-year-old man has been charged following a burglary at a property on Raffles Road earlier this month. The break-in occurred at around 9:15 am on 18 August, and Daniel New, 36, stole tools from the property.
Jordan Edge, 28, of Prenton Dell Road, has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply crack cocaine as part of a County Lines operation. Multiple searches found many wraps of crack cocaine on his person and at his address.
Merseyside Police are searching for 16-year-old Selina Shi Ya Chen, who has been missing from her Moreton home since Wednesday afternoon. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall, with long brown hair and a slim build.
A 45-year-old man has been charged with Section 18 wounding with intent after a man was slashed with a glass at a Bedford Road pub. The man suffered a slash wound on his forehead while at The Bedford, or Luke's as it's locally known, over the weekend.
