A 16-year-old boy kneecapped a man after opening fire with a pistol outside a convenience store in the early hours.
Joel Harvey, now aged 17, carried out the shooting on Prescot Road in Old Swan in a "revenge" attack against his victim. He was then linked to a second incident in which another man was shot in the chest only weeks later in Broadgreen.
The teenager was locked up for 12-and-a-half years today, Wednesday, after being convicted of a string of firearms offences. While defendants cannot ordinarily be named until they are 18, reporting restrictions surrounding his identity have been lifted following a legal challenge by the ECHO.
