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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Jonathan Humphries

£50k reward to catch 'cowardly' gunman who killed Olivia Pratt-Korbel

The founder of Crimestoppers has personally offered a £50,000 reward for anyone with information leading to the killer of Olivia Pratt-Korbel being convicted.

Tory peer Lord Ashcroft, former deputy chairman of the Conservative party, said he wanted to help "catch the cowards" responsible for the nine-year-old's atrocious murder. Olivia was shot dead in her home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at around 10pm on Monday, August 22.

A gunman burst through the front door of her home while chasing 35-year-old Joseph Nee, who had himself pushed into the house in a desperate bid to escape. The killer, who was carrying two guns, fired a shot which passed through the wrist of Olivia's mum, Cheryl Korbel, and hit the schoolgirl in the chest.

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