Armed police officers 'scooped up' then ran with murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in a desperate bid to save her young life, a coroner's court heard today.
The court heard Olivia was then rushed in a police car to Alder Hey Children's Hospital, where an officer carried her to the main entrance as he covered a wound she had suffered with his hand. Andre Rebello, the senior coroner for Liverpool and Wirral, today formally opened inquests into the deaths of Olivia, as well as 28-year-old Ashley Dale and 22-year-old Sam Rimmer, who were also shot dead in a horror week of crime on Merseyside.
Mr Rebello, who recalled the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones being first reported to him 15 years ago, hit out at the 'heinous and unforgiving' murder of Olivia in her own home and issuing a public appeal for anyone with information to come forward to police, said it was 'shocking that a nine-year-old girl with her whole life ahead of her is shot anywhere'.
