The Latest Breaking News from Wavertree

Life on estate where neighbours find it 'normal' to hear gunshots

"These gangs round here don't care"

Liverpool Echo · Jun 11, 2022

Three named in murder probe after man, 57, found dead

Adrian Swift's body was found at a Wavertree house

Liverpool Echo · Jun 1, 2022

Wavertree takeaway drops from five star to one in poor health review

Liverpool Council visited the site last month and found that “major improvement” was necessary

Liverpool Echo · May 12, 2022

Two shootings in one week leave quiet streets crawling with police

One said "kids were playing out in the street" at the time a man was shot in the neck

Liverpool Echo · Apr 23, 2022

Hapless dad broke both ankles trying to escape police after attacking kid in park

Andrews, 31, of Colville Street, Wavertree, was jailed for a total of four and a half year

Liverpool Echo · Mar 29, 2022

Liverpool Male Voice Choir repeat history with Wavertree concert for refugees

The choir staged a concert - 106 years after performing at the same venue to support people uprooted by WWI

Liverpool Echo · Mar 28, 2022

Helicopter and armed police called over 'man with gun in park'

Armed police were seen patrolling the park before making an arrest

Liverpool Echo · Mar 24, 2022

Boyfriend who killed young mum with skipping rope then claimed he didn't remember jailed

Nigel Diakite, then aged 19, strangled his partner to death with a skipping rope in bed at their home in Wavertree, Liverpool, while the couple's then four-month-old baby was sleeping in a cot next to them

Daily Mirror · Mar 21, 2022

Man strangled girlfriend in brutal attack and left her body next to their baby

Mohammed Diakite, also known as Nigel, launched a "terrible and unprovoked assault" on 20-year-old N'Taya Elliott-Cleverley after she planned to leave him and has now been convicted of her murder

Daily Mirror · Mar 16, 2022

Mum lives with 'painful reminders' of teenage son who was shot in the back

Kevin Wilson was pronounced dead in hospital after Wavertree shooting

Liverpool Echo · Feb 17, 2022