
“Let her death not be in vain” is the feeling hanging over a Liverpool community, four weeks after a schoolgirl was shot dead in her own home.
In his homily during Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s funeral on Thursday, the archbishop of Liverpool called on those present to comfort each other with faith in the belief the nine-year-old’s untimely and ill-fated death would “lead to a community without violence”.