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The Latest Breaking News from Alan Roberts

Family run business carving headstones for 135 years

"You look at the stones in a cemetery, they're things of beauty, not just blocks of stone with names on."

Liverpool Echo

"None of us want to be here but we're struggling": The stories of striking ambulance workers

"I have a family at home and I'm using food banks."

Manchester Evening News

Toxic friendship of 'stupid' gun thugs who are paying a heavy price

The ECHO can reveal how the two friends' links to lethal weapons, brazen thuggery and staggering stupidity dates back years

Liverpool Echo

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Dumb and dumber: Gun thug mates became pub and bike 'assassins'

James Freeman was shot twice with his own gun and killer Rueben Murphy's mistakes led detectives to his door

Liverpool Echo

Girl’s parents trusted doctor when told inquest not needed, tribunal hears

Dr Heather Steen denies allegations from the General Medical Council she acted dishonestly and engaged in a cover-up.

The Independent UK

Faces of 79 people jailed in Liverpool in February

Killers, rapists and thugs are in the overview of court cases linked to Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

Faces of 27 people jailed in Liverpool this week

An overview of Liverpool court cases and those jailed for crimes linked to Merseyside

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Moment blundering 'assassin' shot twice in chest after target turned gun on him

James Freeman, 24, was armed with a loaded semi-automatic pistol when he entered the crowded Old Bank Pub in Liverpool with plans to shoot down rival gangster Alan Roberts on May 17 last year

Daily Mirror

Blood pours from pub gunman who was shot twice in the chest

The injured 'assassin' claimed he wasn't at the shootout and now says he didn't want to hurt anyone

Liverpool Echo

CCTV shows thugs shooting each other with the same gun outside pub the day after lockdown

The shootout began after James Freeman took the gun to the boozer to hunt for Alan Roberts.

Daily Record

Terrifying pub shootout, teen stabbed in back, and airport chaos

The latest evening ECHO headlines on Friday, February 25

Liverpool Echo

Pub shootout caught on CCTV as thugs shoot each other with the same gun

The masked 'assassin' and his 'victim' were both jailed

Liverpool Echo

Gunman's life of crime from fugitive teen to pub 'assassin'

James Freeman has been involved in gun crime since he was just a boy

Liverpool Echo

Man who wrestled gunman and shot him twice in chest cleared of attempted murder

Career criminals Alan Roberts and James Freeman clashed in a terrifying pub shootout in Page Moss, Liverpool, captured on CCTV after struggling over the weapon which went off

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Man shot 'assassin' with his own gun in pub shootout

Alan Roberts was cleared of attempted murder but found guilty of wounding with intent

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