Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has joined those around the country reacting to news of a nine-year-old schoolgirl being shot dead in Liverpool.
The nine-year-old child was inside a house on Kingsheath Avenue, in Dovecot, when a man burst in to the property and fired a number of shots. The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the chest before being rushed to hospital, where she died a short time later. A man inside the home also suffered a number of gunshots to his body while a woman was shot in the hand before the gunman fled the scene.
The brutal and senseless killing of the young girl has sent shockwaves around the city and the rest of the country. Sir Keir, sharing a tweet from Wavertree MP Paula Barker, tweeted: "My thoughts are with the little girl’s family, devastating news, for them and their community."
