Ex-Liverpool player Stephen Warnock caught creep after 40-minute chase through city

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The 44-year-old former defender, now a pundit, lay in wait for Andrew Mulhearn after he was repeatedly captured on the women's Ring doorbell approaching their front door.Warnock, originally from Ormskirk, staked out the house with his fiancée, who is the sister of one of the victims, parking nearby at times Mulhearn was known to show up. When Mulhearn arrived and noticed he might be seen, he fled.

Warnock followed him for around 40 minutes through south Liverpool until police, responding to a 999 call, arrived and made the arrest.Mulhearn, 30, of Pitville Avenue in Mossley Hill - the same street as the victims - was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, after he admitted two counts of harassment without violence over a number of weeks last summer.Speaking to the ECHO, Warnock said they decided to investigate Mulhearn to "build a better case" for the police. But Warnock told the ECHO he thought he should go and wait outside the house, "not necessarily to confront him, but at that stage we literally knew nothing about him".One night, the England international waited an hour-and-a-half for Mulhearn to turn up.

However, Warnock didn't know the area well and lost him when Mulhearn picked up the pace.Warnock noticed a car that had also been following Mulhearn and went over to speak to the driver. It turned out he was the brother who owned the house where Mulhearn's victims lived.Then an unmarked police car, responding to Warnock's fiancée's call, arrived and grabbed Mulhearn.