‘Speak up for Ellis’: Mother of teenager shot in back issues emotional plea on his 20th birthday to find killer

Ellis Cox, 19, was fatally shot on the Liver Industrial Estate at around 11pm on 23 June last year - (Merseyside Police)

The family of a “kind” and “funny” 19-year-old who was shot dead last year have issued an appeal as they mark what would have been his 20^th birthday.

Ellis Cox was shot in the back in a confrontation between his friends and a group of males on a Liverpool industrial estate on 23 June last year.