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From killer gunmen to a fake cancer bride: 600 people locked up in Merseyside in 2020 Murderers, evil rapists, gangland thugs and bent cops were all jailed last year Updated L-R Clement Martin, Toni Standen and Lee Abbott Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll i...

Photo: Uralla sign Thunderbolt the Bushranger, real name Fredrick Wordsworth Ward, was a taboo subject at home when I was a child. In my early teens I realised there was something my mother’s family didn’t want revealed and when I asked her, my mother refused to say more than, “It wasn’t Thunderbolt they shot.” How would she know, I thought, but there was no more and it took several years of digging around to find out the truth. The family secret You see, my mother’s maternal fami...