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The Recorder of Liverpool Andrew Menary KC told Doyle it was "inevitable" he would be facing a custodial sentence "of some length".

New laws expected to come in next year will mean a reduction in short custodial sentences and more community-based punishment.

Smith operated under several fake company names, alongside his son Joseph, 18, who also pleaded guilty and was given a 20-month custodial sentence in a young offender institution, suspended for 23 months.

In addition to the record numbers inside Scotland's jails, the SPS said that more than 120 people on custodial sentences had recently been managed in the community through home detention curfews.

There were just over 57,000 releases of prisoners who had finished the custodial part of their sentences in England and Wales in 2024-25.