Ex-Marine who drove into Liverpool fans ‘may have suffered catathymic crisis’

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Instead, he pointed to Doyle’s military past and his reputation among colleagues as highly competitive. Doyle will be sentenced on Monday (Picture: Merseyside Police) Doyle served in the Royal Marines in the early 1990s, though some reports indicate he may not have completed the full service term.

Wilson argued that Doyle may have reacted violently because he could not control the situation and was, in his view, fulfilling a ‘mission’ to collect his friends. Criminologist professor David Wilson (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX) He said Doyle’s roles as a Scout leader and active church member also suggested someone used to responsibility and decision-making. ‘The prosecution’s depiction of Paul Doyle as an enraged, entitled, angry white man doesn’t really fit with the pattern of what we know about his domestic life,’ Prof Wilson said.

Doyle left 134 people injured after ploughing his car into the crowdCopyright: AFP/GETTY IMAGES ‘In that moment, that awful moment in Liverpool, Paul Doyle believes he has to take charge of the crowd.’ Prof Wilson added that individuals who experience such crises often become deeply distressed when they grasp the consequences of their actions. Doyle’s emotional collapse in the dock, he said, made it clear he was ‘a psychologically broken man’, who now realises the enormity of what he did.