A decade ago a member of the public in West Derby made a horrific discovery in the back garden of a house.
Merseyside Police rushed to Penshaw Close on the morning of March 22, 2013, and found the body of a man lying in the snow. It was immediately clear that the man, later identified as 31-year-old Karl Bradley, was far beyond saving. Mr Bradley, the brother of notorious Liverpool gangland thug Kirk Bradley, had been shot four times the previous evening, and had been left alone in the cold all night.
Merseyside Police had actually been called to the area at around 11pm the previous night when a stray bullet hit the window frame of a different house on Penshaw Close, where a family with young children had been at home. However, Mr Bradley's body was not discovered at that time and it did not appear to police as if the shooting had left any injuries.
