Snitches get stitches. That was one comment written on social media this week in the wake of the shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.
While a 36-year-old man was arrested in connection with her murder yesterday, it cannot be ignored that for five days a debate was raging over whether it was acceptable to “grass” and help police. I’m not shocked by this but I am disappointed that in the midst of what must be the most heartbreaking period of their lives her grieving family had to issue an appeal to their local community to “do the right thing” to help police find her killer.
They went one step further and had to explain that anyone coming forward isn’t about being a “snitch or a grass”. It feels almost shameful they’ve had to try and justify something that any right-thinking person would see as their civic duty to find the man who shot a little girl to death.
