People living on an estate blighted by crime and anti-social behaviour said they are "scared."
The Woodchurch Estate in Birkenhead has been the subject of a year of crime and anti-social behaviour, including multiple shootings. At the beginning of this month a man in his 20s was shot on Orrets Meadow Road in the leg by a man riding what witnesses said was a moped.
Police have now launched a crackdown on a drug-dealing organisation believed to be operating in the estate, which is regularly classed by police gang experts among the "top three" threats to public safety in Merseyside. They believe the various shootings that have taken place in the estate this year have been related to the activities of this drug gang.
