Standing in the glass-panelled dock at Liverpool Magistrates' Court this morning, , ashen-faced and teary-eyed.

Merseyside Police officers and the media including the Daily Express were lining up outside the city's imposing well before they opened at 9am, with the huge public interest in Doyle's first appearance since he was charged.

In total 79 people were injured when a Ford Galaxy car struck Liverpool FC fans just after 6pm on Monday night as they celebrated the club's Premier League title triumph.

The shocking incident occurred on Water Street, just 500 yards from the court building where Doyle appeared at 10.30am, wearing an ill-fitting dark suit, a white shirt and grey tie.

His hair was scruffy and unkempt and he looked startled by the 50 or so journalists, police, court staff and Crown prosecutors packing out Court 3-6, on the third floor of the building.

When District Judge Paul Healey asked for his name and address the defendant choked on his words as he said: "Paul Doyle".

With all the eyes of the court on him he sat down as legal proceedings started. Doyle's top shirt button was undone and his tie hanging slightly.

But when the seven charges were read out he first looked to the floor, hands clasped together and staring down blankly - but as the words "drove deliberately" were said Doyle shook his head.

There were pauses for legal arguments - meaning each time Doyle had to stand up and walk out of the dock, each time accompanied by two female dock officers - and return to the court cells.

This was just one of two court hearings Doyle will have today - next standing before Recorder of Liverpool Judge Andrew Menary in Court 4.1, the start of what will be an extensive legal process that may take several months to reach a conclusion.