She looks like an innocent schoolgirl – but Paris Willows is a one woman crimewave who has terrorised neighbours in the Cheshire town where she lives – and locked up an astonishing 100 convictions before she turned 20.
In her latest brush with the law, teenage tearaway Willows was locked up for biting a nurse and kicking a police officer during a drunken rampage.
And neighbours in the previously quiet village just outside Warrington have united in celebrating the decision to lock her up, describing her as a ‘screaming nightmare’ and a ‘vicious’ bully who lashes out after drinking to excess or taking drugs, as she frequently does.
Incredibly, this will be her third spell in custody, despite only turning 20 in November.
And Willows’ only defender in the village is her godmother – who insists, astonishingly, that ‘she’s a good girl really’.
Police most recently arrested Willows after they found her in possession of cannabis as well as prescription drug pregabalin and the tranquilliser clonazepam at Warrington bus station on November 18 – just weeks after she had exited her teens and turning 20.
But rather than subduing her, the experience of being taken to custody saw her to descend into a violent rage.
Officers were so concerned that instead of putting her in a cell they transferred her to hospital but there she verbally abused a staff member and kicked a police officer.
Still in hospital the next day, Willows bit a nurse who was trying to care for her.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that her latest offences meant she has now amassed more than 100 previous convictions.
Some of the highlights of her rap sheet include sending messages that were ‘grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character’ and assaulting a ‘vulnerable’ 15-year-old girl by punching her in the face.
News that she had finally been locked up is being celebrated in Orford.
Neighbour Karl Robinson, 64, said: ‘She looks a real baby-face but she could be a real horror. She had slanging rows with people and was a real druggie.
‘She shouted abuse at people. She always seemed to be in trouble with the police always round. It wasn’t easy living near her. She’d have loud parties.’
Another neighbour, who was too concerned about Willows’ rages to volunteer her name, said: ‘She was a right handful, throwing things and racing in shopping trolleys.
‘She was a nightmare – always causing trouble. She always seemed to have a spliff on the go and would scream insults at people.
‘It was horrible living near her. She got in lots of fights and was really vicious, picking on younger kids. I’m glad she’s been banged up.’
Another former neighbour, Karen Sims, 56, said: ‘She was a right handful. You’d see her smoking marijuana and swearing at people. A lot of people stayed well clear of her.’
The latest sentence is not her first time in custody.
In May last year she was sentenced to nine weeks in a young offender institution for sending a number of Facebook, text and voice messages that were ‘grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character’.
That same day, she assaulted a ‘vulnerable’ 15-year-old girl by punching her in the face.
She was also locked up for 12 months in March 2024 after being convicted of five counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker by pinching and kicking police.
Willows had previously been spared jail in January 2024 after swearing at her probation officer.
She told the officer that she wished her child would die and said: ‘I will stab you, you just watch.’
That hearing in January 2024 was told that Willows already had an ‘extensive’ criminal record. Willows’ mother, Rebecca, declined to discuss her daughter this week.
However Willows’ godmother Karen Hamson, who also lives locally, leapt to her defence and claimed she was at heart a ‘good girl’.
She told Mail Online: ‘I hope Paris is going to turn things around. We all really hope so as she is only young. She’s just made a few mistakes. She’s a good girl really.’
And she gave an insight into how Willows’ mother’s life has been troubled and said she has consequently ‘struggled with some aspects of parenting’.
Rebecca’s partner Billy Moore, 31, was stabbed to death on the doorstep of her home in Warrington in December 2022.
He was stabbed repeatedly in the face, throat and chest in front of two young girls and was left to die in a hallway.
Rebecca found him and dialled 999 but he could not be saved.
James Ireland told the trial he had gone to their home because his 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old cousin told him that Mr Moore had shouted at them and tried to grab them.
When Mr Moore answered the door, Ireland stabbed him numerous times on his chest, neck and head.
Paris’ godmother Ms Hamson, who is a close friend of Rebecca, said: ‘Rebecca has had a lot to deal with.
‘First the murder of her partner and then Paris. It’s not been easy.’