Ex Marine Paul Doyle bit sailor’s ear off during drunken fight before Liverpool crash

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But he said ‘those efforts to rehabilitate himself after a difficult early adulthood only serve to make more shocking and tragic what he did in Liverpool that day this May’. Recounting Doyle’s criminal history, Mr Greaney told the court he had enlisted in the Royal Marines for 22 years’ service but was discharged after 22 months.

Doyle ploughed into a crowd of people during Liverpool FC’s Premier League victory parade (Picture: PA) In October 1991, at the end of Paul Doyle’s 32-week training period for the Royal Marines at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon, he had what he later described as a ‘scuffle’ with men in a nightclub. When he was interviewed by police earlier this year after the parade incident, he said he had become involved in a drunken fight with sailors.

He worked, including in positions of responsibility. ‘He had a family. Those efforts to rehabilitate himself after a difficult early adulthood only serve to make more shocking and tragic what he did in Liverpool that day this May.’ Doyle cried in the dock as Mr Greaney spoke.