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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robyn Vinter, Rajeev Syal and Vikram Dodd

‘It’s crazy and it needs to stop’: shock and anger in Liverpool after week of violence

Floral tributes
Flowers left near the scene in Liverpool’s Dovecot where Olivia Pratt-Korbel was fatally shot on 22 August. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

A week of shootings, stabbings, sorrow and anger has left people in Liverpool wondering whether it is safe to leave their homes.

On the same night that nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed by a masked gunman who had forced his way into her home in Dovecot, five miles away, a woman in her 50s was found with a fatal stab wound in her chest in a pub car park in Kirkby.

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