The jailing of Joel Harvey is a hugely positive result for Merseyside Police.
The reckless, casually violent young man had already pumped bullets into one man and was strongly suspected of shooting a second in the chest when he was collared by armed officers in June last year, aged just 16.
Harvey's sentence on Thursday came only two days after another sentencing for yet another teenager gun thug, Chesney Miller, who had shot a boy in the abdomen in Prescot and was later involved in a vicious stabbing outside Riverside College in Widnes.
