Underworld figures are likely "outraged" by the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel and may be providing intelligence on those responsible, according to senior officers.
The St Margaret Mary's Primary School pupil died on Monday, August 22 after a gunman burst into her home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, while chasing 35-year-old convicted criminal Joseph Nee. The killer opened fire hitting Olivia's mum, Cheryl Korbel, in the wrist and fatally wounding Olivia in the chest.
The tragedy came after the fatal shootings of 22-year-old Sam Rimmer in Dingle on August 16, and 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Old Swan on August 21. Mr Rimmer's murder was the first homicide in Merseyside involving a firearm in more than a year and those six dark days stunned police.
