Jack Roach breached his gang injunction just two days after he received a suspended sentence for a previous breach

A thug who was previously banned from his own estate for battering two brothers with a golf club has been jailed for breaching his gang injunction again.

Jack Roach, aged 21 and of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Civil and Family Court on Friday, July 19 to breaching the gang injunction and was jailed for 18 weeks. Roach had previously been handed a 12-week suspended sentence on March 19 for a previous breach earlier in the year.

He subsequently breached the gang injunction again on March 21 by associating with a person on his non-association list, activating the suspended sentence. He was given the additional six weeks for the latest breach.

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Woodchurch Neighbourhood Inspector Sharon Robinson said: “Our officers are dedicated to making a positive difference within our communities and disrupting the lives of those prepared to engage in criminality, which brings with it significant harm and distress. We are determined to tackle serious and organised crime in the EVOLVE Wirral area and will use everything within our policing powers to make Woodchurch, Beechwood and Noctorum safer places to live and visit.

“Together with our partners we are using all the powers and legislation available to us to crackdown on gang-related activity. Gang injunctions form part of our continued work to make the EVOLVE Wirral areas safer places to live, work and visit. The prohibitions of those who have been handed gang injunctions are well known by our local officers and are policed rigorously so if Roach breaches his prohibitions again, we can act quickly to arrest him and put him back before the courts.”

Roach was jailed for 11 months in October 2022 after he and his dad fought with two brothers outside their Woodchurch home. The incident, triggered over an alleged bike theft, saw Roach and his dad David battle with Brendan and Michael Kennedy for a lengthy brawl with the then 19-year-old using a golf club.

While the other defendants in the case avoided prison, Roach was jailed as the court heard he already had a significant list of previous convictions including possession of an offensive weapon. The judge also imposed a criminal behaviour order (CBO) in order to limit his criminality in the future, restricting where he could go and who he could speak to on his own estate.

Roach was jailed again for breaching the criminal behaviour order in September 2023 after he was spotted by officers on foot patrol on the Woodchurch estate. The car he was a passenger in drove from the scene but he was arrested days later, remanded in custody and sentenced to eight weeks in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching his order.