The court has just been shown dashcam footage taken from the defendant’s car showing the attack.

Paul Greaney KC warns the court: “What we are about to display on the screens is truly shocking.”

In the footage, which causes audible gasps in the courtroom, Paul Doyle can be heard repeatedly shouting at pedestrians to, “Move out the f***ing way” as he drives through crowds.

Consistently using his vehicle’s horn, people can be seen attempting to jump out of the way, with some being forced onto the bonnet of the car.

“F***ing pricks,” he shouts as the footage continues.

By the end of the footage, people begin to attempt to run up to the vehicle. When the car stops, one man shouts, “Get the f*** out of the car”.

Doyle’s driving ‘markedly more aggressive’ hours before attack – prosecutor

Paul Greaney KC tells the court the distance between Paul Doyle’s home in Croxteth and Liverpool city centre was around six or seven miles.

The court was then shown further dashcam footage from the defendant’s car in which he drops a friend off in the city centre before heading home, a journey that took just under an hour.

While Doyle stuck to the traffic management in place in the city centre as he passed through, he drove “in a markedly more aggressive way” during the journey, Greaney says.

Concerned faces of fans seen moments before attack – as Doyle’s dangerous driving forced people to move

As we’ve heard, the hundreds of Liverpool fans walking towards Paul Doyle’s car “were doing nothing wrong” as they passed the defendant’s car on Dale Street, Paul Greaney KC has been telling the court.

Some of the pedestrians began to bang on the roof of Doyle’s car because of their growing concerns about its direction though the crowd, the prosecutor says.

In response, Doyle then started to blast his horn “repeatedly” as his driving became “highly dangerous”, the prosecutor says.

A series of still images taken from the dashcam footage in the Ford Galaxy showed a number of pedestrians with concerned expressions as Doyle’s car approached them.

The court has been shown footage of Doyle driving through the area, at times slowly, before speeding up into crowds of people – forcing many to jump out of the way.

The prosecutor emphasises that the footage shown so far is before Doyle’s vehicle actually struck anyone seriously.

But even at this stage, Doyle had committed the offences of dangerous driving and affray, the court hears.