Nine year old girl shot in Liverpool

[Don Roque]

I know the city has a bad reputation for crime but man, what a dire place.



https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-626...

[Tickle]

Horrific news, 9 years old, I couldn't comprehend going through what that poor little girls family are going through now.

Two shootings a few days apart, also a stabbing resulting in a death last night too.

Not good statistics for Liverpool.

[Johnnytheboy]

Wasn't a young woman shot the other day?

Are they having a little gang war?

[Earthdweller]

Yep

27 year old woman shot dead in her home by a gang that burst in.

Her then 16 year old brother was shot dead a few years back

[Dan_1981]

Liverpool is lovely in some areas... but then others...

[SWoll]

Dan_1981 said:

Liverpool is lovely in some areas... but then others...

Just like pretty much every major UK city then?

[The jiffle king]

This is a tragic story with a 9 year old shot in the chest

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-6...

I can't get my head around a 9 year old being in harms way and why someone could ever shoot at a child. more will come out over the coming days and weeks but it's a shocking end to a young life

[Richard-390a0]

Earthdweller said:

Yep

27 year old woman shot dead in her home by a gang that burst in.

Her then 16 year old brother was shot dead a few years back

I've just read this, both were not the intended target / mistaken identity etc. For that to happen twice to members of the same family seems remarkable to me.

[foxbody-87]

On the 15th anniversary of Rhys Jones being shot as well. The 16 year old lad that was shot was walking along a canal when he was ambushed in a case of mistaken identity and his sister was shot in another botched hit. Crazy.

[JimmyConwayNW]

Summer time gang stuff always gets bad. A lot of tit for tat sadly.


Truly despicable to have done this.

[McGee_22]

The young woman who had lost her half brother to a mistaken identity murder in 2015 and was killed on Sunday...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-6...

50 year old woman stabbed and murdered in a pub on Monday...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-6...

The 9 year old was also shot and killed on Monday evening...

[GroundZero]

Don Roque said:

I know the city has a bad reputation for crime but man, what a dire place.

Its more the councils, the authorities, the police, the lawyers and judges etc. its about their opinion on how to tackle crime in that area.
Seemingly they are not doing any where near enough to all work together for the common goal of preventing crime.
Generally speaking across much of the country, Councils/authorities are politically swung and would rather spend public tax money on diversity tick boxes and promotion of woke agendas.
Police also would rather spend time promoting the woke agenda, by painting cars in pretty rainbow colours, danging the macarena, and wasting money on harassing people who make non-PC comments on social media.
Judges are seemingly wanting to shy away from dishing out harsh sentencing in order to keep giving criminals a 5th, 6th, 7th, 100th chance to choose the right path in life.
The UK at the moment is very disjointed, incoherent and directionless on crime, nobody seems to want to work together for a common purpose. Everything is politically charged agendas out for their own gain. And no government yet has actually done anything to improve the situation.

[bitchstewie]

Bloody hell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-6...

[poo at Paul's]

Grim.

[The Rotrex Kid]

Terrible stuff.

'The man with the gun was following a 35-year-old man with no connection to the family into the house and opened fire, hitting Cheryl and injuring her before then fatally wounding Olivia, who was standing directly behind Cheryl.'

[CoolHands]

Anyone involved in supply, use, conversion, ammo, etc of firearms needs to get whole life tariff no ifs no buts.

[Pastor Of Muppets]

CoolHands said:

Anyone involved in supply, use, conversion, ammo, etc of firearms needs to get whole life tariff no ifs no buts.

Never going to happen in this age of milquetoast judges.

[rjfp1962]

The Rotrex Kid said:

Terrible stuff.

'The man with the gun was following a 35-year-old man with no connection to the family into the house and opened fire, hitting Cheryl and injuring her before then fatally wounding Olivia, who was standing directly behind Cheryl.'

Terrible story.. Listening to Times Radio. Apparently the mum Cheryl opened her front door to see what was going on outside, the shooter sees her and then forces his way into their house and starts shooting.. That poor kid - I don't understand how this can happen, and if it did happen this way, Cheryl will punish herself for opening the front door... There's no way she could have predicted what would happen in doing so.
Sympathy to the family on this awful day......

Senseless killing of a little girl. R.I.P. Olivia

[Tickle]

bhstewie said:

Bloody hell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-6...

That is awful; your home, your safe place for your family and children.

Absolute animals. I hope, when caught they get the book thrown at them.

[Don Roque]

bhstewie said:

Bloody hell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-6...

Sounds like the police have made some significant progress already. They'll be throwing resources at a this, a shame that this will ultimately lead to other investigations stalling and other areas going under-resourced as they pool their people on this enquiry (of course, it is worthy of all the efforts available to catch this scum).

It's about time this country started funding police and prisons properly, to restore some semblance of law and order. Here's hoping they continue to make good progress in tracking this killer down.