Disbelief, despair and pure, unadulterated anger – that was the mood as Liverpool woke up on Tuesday morning to hear that history had repeated itself. Fifteen years to the day after 11-year-old Rhys Jones was shot dead as he walked home from football practice, another tragically young life had been lost to gun crime on our city’s streets.
Olivia Pratt-Korbel was just nine when she was fatally shot on Monday night by a masked gunman who had barged into the little girl’s home in pursuit of his intended target. Neither Olivia nor her mum, Cheryl, who was also hit, knew the men. The target had forced his way in when Cheryl opened the door after hearing a commotion outside, the gunman following him in, firing indiscriminately.
