Murder detectives hunting the killer of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel are looking at "feuds" between members of local crime groups as part of their investigation.
Senior officers confirmed a "number of names have been provided" for the killer and work is ongoing to investigate each of those leads. Today the force provided updates on the investigations into the murders of Olivia in Dovecot, as well as the separate enquiries into the shootings of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Old Swan and 22-year-old Sam Rimmer in Dingle.
The most significant new information shared at the Merseyside Police press conference this lunchtime was the arrest of a man on suspicion of the murder of Miss Dale, and a woman on suspicion of assisting an offender in the same investigation. Miss Dale was shot dead in her home on Leinster Road after a gunman burst through her front door and fired "multiple shots" indiscriminately.
