Two suspects arrested after a man was sprayed with bullets in a drive-by shooting have been released without charge due to "insufficient evidence".
Merseyside Police had been called to the busy Hoole Road in Woodchurch, Wirral, at around 6.30pm on Tuesday, March 22 last year after members of the public raised the alarm. It later emerged that a 23-year-old man had been shot multiple times close to a row of shops, in full view of a young girl said to have been "petrified" by the incident.
The victim survived but was left with "life-changing injuries". Detectives at the time said between three and five shots were fired from a dark-coloured Ford Fiesta, which witnesses described "screeching off" in the direction of Houghton Road.
