Liverpool was already in a state of shock when news started to filter through that a teenage girl had been killed in the city centre.
On November 14 last year, the city was rocked by an attempted terrorist attack that targeted the women's hospital, a deeply symbolic setting for many local people. Mercifully, 32-year-old Emad al-Swealmeen was only successful in ending his own life as the improvised explosive device he had created went off early in the back of the taxi he was travelling in, before he reached the entrance of a hospital full of newborn babies and their parents.
The dark thoughts of the devastation that might have been - as well as the investigation into why this man had tried to do such damage - were all many in this city could think about in the weeks after the attack. Sadly Liverpool had just 11 days before it was shaken once again.
