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A desperate dad rammed two youths off a scooter before a masked man jumped out of his car and fired a shotgun over their heads.
Paul O’Neill was jailed for seven years despite claiming his was trying to protect his family.
He hired a gunman to scare the yobs he claimed were terrorising his family after his son’s scooter was stolen and he reported it to the police.
He took part in the plan to scare the lads and drove his Audi at them before the hired gunman got out and used a shotgun to fire pellets over their heads.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the 50-year-old deliberately knocked them off the vehicle in Kingsheath Avenue, Knotty Ash at around 2.30pm on August 20 last year.
His accomplice jumped out and fired the gun over the youths’ heads – causing pellets to hit the wall of an unoccupied house.