The court heard one of the people hit by the car had also been a victim of the Manchester Arena terror attack in 2017.

Francesca Massey, 24, said: “The incident in Liverpool has reopened emotional wounds from a previous traumatic experience where I was victim of the Ariana Grande terrorist attack in Manchester.

“The recent event brought back vivid memories of that night – the same overwhelming fear, the moment of stillness before chaos and the desperate rush to escape with the crowd of innocent people around me. This is something I felt I had overcome over the past eight years, and now I feel like I have been set back again, as it reawakened previous trauma.”

Her brother, Ali Massey, 19, said he had been “significantly affected” by emotional and psychological pain. His statement to Liverpool Crown Court said: “For 30 minutes I believed that all of my family and friends were dead, taken away from me within a matter of seconds.

“I do not believe I could possibly describe how unbearably painful that was to experience or how difficult it is to relive.”