The death of 9-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel: a shocking sequence of events
Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest when a gunman chased a stranger into her home and fired off indiscriminate bullets. The same bullet hit her mother in the wrist.
Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest when a gunman chased a stranger into her home in Liverpool and fired off indiscriminate bullets. The same bullet hit her mother in the wrist. Merseyside's Chief Constable, Serena Kennedy, said the child and her mother were innocent victims caught in the gunfire.
Police have called it a shocking and appalling attack which would "reverberate around Liverpool's communities.β The timing is also poignant coming 15 years to the day since the murder of Rhys Jones, an 11-year-old boy who was shot dead in Croxteth Park on his way home from football practice. The Chief Constable said she believed that should have been βa watershed moment in the battle against gun crime and the use of guns on our streetsβ.
For 5 Minutes On, the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's North of England Correspondent, Danny Savage, reports on the tragic and shocking sequence of events.
