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ON PHONE: Hello?

Hello? Hello.

How can I help?

Hiya, love. I've just recently heard a loud noise in the back.

I didn't know what it was.

I stood on me back wall

and the house immediately to the back of us,

there's a lady lying there and she's groaning.

SIRENS AND POLICE RADIO CHATTER

All right, it's the police.

If there's anyone here, make yourself known.

Door been kicked off there.

Hello?

In the back!

Romeo 151. I need an ambulance.

Got a female in the back. She's unconscious

and there's blood everywhere, mate.

They can't get a pulse on the female. Stand by.

Mate, just start the CPR now. Just quickly.

How old is she?

Don't know. Only young.

Is that a gunshot wound? I don't... Oh, there's one in the back as well.

Sarge, I think we have a bullet casing on the floor there as well.

There's a bullet casing in the property and a potential

gunshot wound to the chest. Can you make Bronze 1 aware and CID?

RADIO: 'Received.' No response at all.

Romeo 151.

'Go ahead.'

Yeah, colleagues are currently working on female.

Still unresponsive, getting nothing whatsoever.

From looking inside the property, there are spent casings

and there are also impact marks within the dining room.

There's one here as well.

Chris, did you see that one?

There's two.

Three.

Four, Five.

One, two, three, four.

Bang, bang, bang.

Like a war zone.

Another one up here. Another one up there? Yeah.

You can smell cordite.

There's spent rounds and spent casings on the floor there.

Found the dog.

Hello, mate!

Hello. What's gone on?

Neighbour, occupant across the road seems to think it's a lone female

and her partner that live here, by the name of Ashley.

Right, pause there for a second.

Everyone get on to that, if you will. Yeah. That's it.

Keep walking, keep walking.

All right. You got it?

Yeah. Right.

The female's mobile was located in the rear garden

not too far from where we found her.

Is she all right?

Yeah, I'm not sure. She's been taken in an ambulance.

Gunshot wound to the torso.

So I don't think it's looking good at the moment.

NEWS: 'Liverpool is a city in shock.'

'Two murders in two days. What's going on here?'

'Ashley on Sunday, Olivia on Monday. It's abhorrent.'

'A senseless murder of an innocent 28-year-old woman in her own home.'

The killing of a nine-year-old child crosses every single boundary.

This is a shocking crime and the gunman is still at large.

'You can't even begin to imagine what the family are going through.'

You know you've done wrong, so you need to own up.

'Somebody knows. Whose side are you on?'

Armed police!

LOOK AT ME!

OK. Good morning, everybody.

It's 10:10, Sunday, August 21st.

Welcome to first murder conference in respect of Ashley Dale,

who was tragically shot

during the early hours of this morning.

Horrendous.

The family are devastated, completely distraught.

I attended the scene.

What we saw was a white VW which is registered to Ashley.

That has got three puncture wounds to three of the tyres.

They look like they've been stabbed with a knife.

We then believe the offender or offenders

have kicked the front door in,

gone inside and discharged a firearm multiple times.

We have a witness.

She says that approximately half past midnight,

she heard a massive bang and then a woman screaming for help.

What we don't know at this moment in time...

the motive for the attack.

Ashley worked for the local authority.

She's not known to the police.

There's no obvious reason why she should be shot.

She lives with a male by the name of Lee James Harrison.

We need to locate Lee Harrison as a matter of urgency.

We need to keep an open mind around

what we're dealing with at the moment.

Is it mistaken identity or is it an OCG targeted attack?

We don't know.

As I'm sure you can all appreciate, community fear and concern

is going to be rightly really, really high.

People, they will be scared and frightened.

These are challenging times for us within Merseyside.

I can't think of a worse job that we've had recently.

OK.

Let's have a good day.

I want to be in a position where we're locking people up.

Thank you and good luck, and be careful out there.

Thanks a lot. Thanks, everyone. Bye-bye.

The last shooting of a female I can remember

was 16, maybe 17 years ago.

So it's extremely shocking. We're all shaken.

I've been up all night.

Clearly, I came out to... To the murder.

At the moment, we've got the whole area cordoned off.

People will have seen and heard what's gone on,

and we will be appealing to them to come forward and support us.

RADIO: 'BBC News at 2:30. I'm Niki Cardwell.

'A murder investigation's started

'after a woman was found with gunshot wounds

'in the garden of a house in Liverpool.

'Officers were called to the Old Swan area early this morning.'

Ashley's been at home there on a Saturday evening.

At what point is the expectation

that your front door is going to get forced

and you're going to have somebody coming in with a firearm?

There's just no words for it.

It's just... you know, it's beyond belief.

You want to apprehend these people as soon as possible.

There's people walking around with a firearm prepared to use it

and prepared to use it, you know, against a female in her own home.

I mean, it's absolutely disgusting.

Do you want us suiting up or just footwear? Suiting up? Yeah.

You know, with the cars being slashed.

And we're looking knife, not puncture.

No, it's definitely knife.

Wow.

All right, so stick to the stepping plates, OK?

The front door has been forced to the premises,

and there's footwear marks,

what appears to be fresh footwear marks on the exterior.

So we're going to be processing front door, obviously. Great.

So I'm just looking now... some 3D imagery of the scene,

and it's a snapshot in time with a sequence of events.

The door's obviously been the first thing to be forced.

Ashley was in there. The front door was locked.

The strong likelihood is they've gone straight through,

Ashley's been there or thereabouts in the dining room...

There's ten shots discharged downstairs that can be counted.

In the main, the majority, the eight that we've been able to count up

so far have all been directed towards the kitchen.

What we know from where Ashley was found, she's ended up outside.

Early indications are that

Ashley was trying to get out of that address.

You just can't imagine how she must have felt.

I have never gone into a scene like that

to see just how determined whoever it was that's gone in,

that there is just no-one getting out of that house alive.

So what have we got on Ashley's phone?

We've got all her Instagram accounts on here.

The little dog's got his own Instagram account,

so she's got that on here. She's got loads of chats.

They've booked a holiday to go away too.

I think it was Ibiza.

Yesterday morning together.

Focus on the comms for yesterday.

So the conversation starts about... the dog.

This is her mum saying:

"Dogs just freaked out when I opened the back door.

"Me hands are shaking. I'm scared to go in the kitchen."

That was 22:23 and that was to her mum.

And then her mum says, "What you think it was?"

And Ashley puts a rat.

"I'm shittin meself the dog won't even come in the kitchen.

"I forced myself out here to see if anything ran in."

It's like something has scared her.

Ashley sends Lee a message saying the dog's proper scared.

He doesn't reply.

This continues, and it's just one-way.

This is Ashley to Lee.

She messages saying at 23:40:

"Now me car alarms going off".

And he doesn't reply.

By letting the tyres down, would that set the car alarm off?

I've just been asking the AFOs that and they're not sure either.

When she's made reference to the car alarm going off,

she had to go out and turn it off.

She has not intimated that she's been out at all.

At one minute past midnight,

Lee then replies, saying,

"hahahaha u think your in a horror movie".

She doesn't reply.

And six seconds later, he texts her again saying,

"r u okay".

13 seconds after that, he puts "Alive".

She then replies to him at seven minutes past midnight, saying,

"No I'm dead".

And that is the last contact.

Then she's dead 23 minutes later.

NEWS: 'Detectives in Liverpool are trying to reassure

'the local community after a young woman was shot dead.

'The victim, who was in her twenties,

'was found in the back garden of a house

'in the early hours of Sunday.'

I've done this job for nearly 30 years,

dealt with a number of fatal shootings since I've done this job.

But this is awful.

Truly tragic circumstances.

It's horrific.

Police investigating the murder of Ashley Dale

receive a ballistics report

identifying the weapon used in the attack.

We've just had a report back from Nabis,

the National Ballistics Intelligence Service,

in relation to the fatal shooting of Ashley.

We had 15 cartridge casings recovered,

all fired from one firearm,

a converted blank-firing Skorpion submachine gun.

We've had a few of those turn up in Merseyside recently.

We believe they're coming in from a certain part of Europe,

and they've been obviously imported by criminal gangs, and unfortunately

they're now being used on the streets of Liverpool

and elsewhere in the UK.

The poor girl, she must have been so scared

when she heard the door getting kicked in,

and then next minute someone comes in

and she's confronted with someone holding that.

That is the same type of weapon used to murder Ashley.

You ready, mate, yeah?

SINGLE RAPID BURST

It's horrific.

To me, it just takes it to another...

Another level that we've not seen before in this city.

RADIO: 'Lima Charlie Echo 16...'

RADIO: 'Female has been shot.

'Yeah, all advised, female been shot.

'Nothing further. Location is given.'

'Yeah, there's a further entry on the log

'stating that the male with the gun has followed the male in the house.'

SIRENS WAIL

RADIO: 'Kingsheath Avenue.'

Police receive reports of gunfire on the Dovecot estate...

..two miles from the location of the first murder.

OK. Very quickly, priority is to administer first aid at scene.

First two cars to go to scene to do that,

confirm or negate a presence of any threats.

As a priority, let's get that area cleared

so we can then call paramedic colleagues in.

What number are you?

INDISTINCT

Is anyone injured?

VOICES OVERLAP: Yeah... Nine years of age...

Straight to hospital! Straight to hospital!

Straight to hospital. Gunshot wound to the chest.

We all go...

Mate, grab our stuff. Put it in the car. This is a young child,

shot wound to the chest, for your information, boss.

Oh, my God! >

Where's the chest? Where's the... Where's the cut?

She's...she's been shot in the...

She got a gunshot wound to the chest. I'm putting pressure on.

I got you, lovely. Can you hear me?

Hey!

Can you hear me?

Come on, lovely.

Come on.

Boss, just bear with us a sec.

I'll just get you some clarifications.

It's all a bit chaotic here at the minute.

Right...

Has anyone witnessed this?

I need some details of what's been seen and sighted.

Can anyone give me any information? Yes. Yes?

I seen it all.

Come on, love, talk to me.

I heard some shots.

I turned round. There were two.

One chasing the other one, shooting at him, and the other one...

Two males. Yeah. One chasing the other.

He was chasing him with the gun.

He was shooting at him. He was chasing... OK.

He shot at him four times. Yep.

Sarge?

RADIO: 'Got one offender and he's on foot. I'll get you a full...'

Bronze to Romeo 75. I've got a description of the offender

just to pass out to the aisles

before we start heading out for an area search.

'Yeah, received, go ahead.'

It's a slim male, five feet seven in height, approximately,

all in black. Black balaclava, black puffer jacket, black gloves.

'So at the moment, then, we're looking at

'potentially an area search for this male.'

We'll start doing that. Yes?

Black balaclava, black puffer jacket, black gloves.

It's only a kid.

OK. Good morning.

I've asked for representation from across the whole building.

I appreciate everybody's stopped what they're doing,

but I think it's important we all listen in to this first conference.

This is a high profile Category A murder investigation.

Central is going to go through just explaining the circumstances

around what we know so far.

So the fatal shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel.

It's come in at just 10:00 last night.

We have three injured parties.

The primary victim is Olivia Pratt-Korbel,

nine years of age, with one gunshot wound to the chest.

The second victim is Olivia's mother, Cheryl Korbel,

with a gunshot injury to her wrist.

Tragically, she has been made aware of the news about Olivia.

The other victim is Joseph Nee,

an extremely well-known individual

and the name is a crime family name here on Merseyside.

He was rushed to the hospital, not by the emergency services.

We believe he has four gunshot wounds.

He was serious but stable as of 0430.

He is a subject of interest.

Tangible witness statements we have in short supply.

All are extremely fearful.

I recognise that people have worked some really, really long hours

as well in the last week. However, this is when we step up

and we really need to bring these people to justice.

NEWS: A manhunt is under way in Liverpool

after a nine-year-old girl was shot dead.

RADIO PHONE-IN: 'Everyone is heartbroken,

'and I just want people to know that Liverpool isn't like that,

'but in the space of this past week,

'there's been so many shootings and...'

'Just stops you in your tracks, doesn't it, when you hear the news?'

The death of a nine-year-old child in her own home,

clinging to her mother in fear, is just absolutely horrendous.

I personally have never had anything quite as traumatic.

Totally unprecedented.

I've got nearly 30 years' service in the police.

I've never seen this before.

You know, as a parent,

I fully understand what this will mean to the family

and everybody that knew Olivia.

This area, this is full of decent people,

and they'll be frightened. And we know they're frightened

because we spoke to people last night,

and they're already saying to us that they've saw things,

but there's some reluctance to provide statements.

We've seen that before, which is why we will work really, really hard

in the coming days to build that trust and confidence.

We're in this together.

This is a Category A plus murder.

It's the highest risk that the police service faces.

So as a senior investigating officer in this murder, the pressure's on.

They'll soon phone me.

Right. Who's going to talk me through the sequence of events?

As you say what's happened... Go on.

Number one represents your first casing. Yeah.

Number two.

It's under... Underneath the car? Underneath there. OK.

Represents your second casing. Yeah.

Now, this...

..is actually your first part of the blood.

We discovered another bullet that's got hardly any damage to it,

which to me is an indication that it's gone through soft tissue.

OK. So that could be the other one that's gone through Joseph.

This is almost intact. OK. Yeah.

Looks as though there's been shooting in the street

and the gunman has continued to shoot.

At the house, we found two gunshot defects.

One shot was fired into the side of the door,

and that bullet is still lodged in the door.

One's hit the door, gone right through the door.

We can't find where that's... Finished. Anything else?

We think that that's the one

that's caused the injuries to Cheryl and Olivia.

You think one bullet's caused both injuries?

At this stage, we think it could be, yes.

Let me get this straight in my mind.

Joseph Nee's gone into the house,

the gunman has then shot through the door.

Mum has been behind the door.

The bullet's gone through Mum's hand and into Olivia.

Is that right?

It could be, yes.

Oh, my word.

At this range, I reckon it will...

It'll just be my shoulder height.

So I would certainly think that he was within the yard

when that shot was fired.

In three decades of reporting, I think this is the most tragic

and upsetting series of events surrounding the death of a child

that I've ever heard.

Olivia Pratt-Korbel, nine years old

and killed in the most shocking and unimaginable circumstances.

A man who drove more than 200 miles to pay his respects.

It just shouldn't be happening.

Knife crime, gun crime, everything. It's all...

It's all got to stop. It's all got to stop.

God help that poor family of that poor girl.

You know, I've got a granddaughter.

This is my granddaughter. She's five.

Could have happened to any one of us.

God help the poor mother.

You know, she only opened the door to see what the commotion was.

So just confirm for me your full name and your date of birth.

Cheryl Margaret Korbel, 18/4/76. Thanks, Cheryl.

When you're ready, tell me about Monday evening.

Tell me what happened.

Erm...

I'd... Liv had gone upstairs to watch a bit of telly

before getting ready for bed.

She'd been and got washed.

She said goodnight to the girls and myself.

Erm...but it was warm.

She'd come back down because she was too hot.

And it must have been about 9:45, 9:50. We heard...

Weren't sure whether it was fireworks or gunshots.

I jumped up and went outside

and as I looked down the street to my left...

..I just seen these...

I seen one fella running up towards me.

I realised at that point that it was gunshots,

because it would look like the other one was running after him.

So I ran back in the house and then I heard him saying,

"Please, lad, don't."

And I shut the door quick.

They were trying... he was trying to push it open

and I tried my best to keep it shut.

Until I got shot.

I realised that must have been when she was hit.

And I was just screaming, "Please, Liv, stay with me."

SHE SOBS

NEWS: 'Liverpool is a city in shock.

'In the past week, it's seen violent killings.'

'"An unimaginable tragedy."

'The words from the Prime Minister today.'

Detectives review CCTV footage from the night of Olivia's murder.

Oh, God. Quite harrowing, isn't it?

The footage shows a gunman shooting Joseph Nee.

GUNSHOTS

GUNSHOT

Joseph Nee was the intended target.

We know he's a criminal.

The Nee family are involved in organised crime.

And this is the arrival of Nee, who's carried into Whiston Hospital

by three other males.

How is he? Yeah, so, spoke to Joseph today.

His condition remains the same.

He has got tubes, etc.

The first thing he'd asked me was, is it true that the girl has died?

I've confirmed that with him

and he did start crying in his hospital bed.

He stated that he was in The Bunker pub watching the Liverpool game

with Man United. He said he left the pub after the game

and just started making his way back towards his home address.

GUNSHOTS

Then all of a sudden,

he said he's felt an immediate pain through his entire body.

He said he's run away and has made his way to the first thing he saw,

which was an open door just over the road.

The person with the gun has continued to shoot at him,

and knows that he put his arm through the door and has shot.

He states he's absolutely no idea who the shooter is,

what it's over. He claims that he wants to help the investigation,

but when I asked if he would give me a statement as to what he said,

he then refused, saying he doesn't want to be known as a grass

or bring any retribution to his door.

I'm not impressed with that, really. Let's be honest.

Yeah, really dim view of that, really.

I think probably everybody in the room will have as well.

We understand he's going to be fearful, but...

Right. House-to-house is a real priority for us at the moment.

CCTV, absolutely critical.

And when we're out in the community and people are saying

they're too scared to give us statements, just remind them

that it's a nine-year-old child that's been shot dead.

Police today appealed to the local community and

what they called the criminal fraternity

to come forward with information.

They are making it very clear that a line has been crossed

and the criminal fraternity in Liverpool need to have a long,

hard look at themselves, to give up the person

and the other people involved in this.

Hiya, bud. You all right?

In terms of CCTV, the gunman could have walked down

past the Labour club, through here.

They're just scum, anyone that kills a child or anything like that.

Bang them in nick for 50 years, plus.

We're basically wondering if we could have

a little look at your CCTV.

Little rats.

I know, it's awful, isn't it?

Oh, really? Just heartbreaking.

Yeah. It's terrible.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, course you can.

Do you want to do it here or somewhere else?

Could go inside if you'd like, or...

Erm... Or do you not want to go inside? Right, tell you what...

Right, OK.

Right, OK. Right. Tell you what.

Meet us at the other side of the school.

Hiya, Lou. Right, I've managed to get hold of this lady.

It would appear that they have footage,

but she's really, really, really sort of panicky about it.

They've been having family discussions now

over the last couple of days about revealing it.

'No, everyone's a bit tetchy about giving it to us.'

Yeah. 'But we will crop it.'

Right. 'To the point where they wouldn't know where it's come from.'

Right, OK.

If this was a targeted attack, it was targeted at a man

who had nothing at all to do with Olivia or her mother.

Very similar to an attack just a mile and a half away from here -

Ashley Dale, shot and killed in her own garden,

again when a gunman forced entry into her property.

Caught in the crossfire.

Not the intended victim of the shooting,

but again, a young person losing their life.

Olivia has been given operational name Robin.

Ashley's name is Operation Perth.

We're not ruling out that that this is connected to Olivia's murder.

At this stage, open mind.

Detectives continue to investigate

the murder of 28-year-old Ashley Dale.

They have tracked down her boyfriend, Lee Harrison.

Me and Claire went to speak to Lee.

He presented extremely upset.

He loves her.

Doesn't know why the house has been targeted.

And a couple of times, he did say, Claire, didn't he,

that if he knew it was down to him, you know, he'd be devastated.

He's basically said he has tried to come to the police station -

he was on his way to Huyton - but was far too upset.

He won't give us anything in relation to who was responsible.

What did Ashley's parents say about her relationship with Lee?

We've been out to see Dad

We did speak about Ashley and Lee.

They've been together for around six years.

As far as Dad understands it, it's a good relationship.

He's not aware of any domestic issues.

We've invested so much time in trying to, one, find him

and to get him to engage, but he isn't fully speaking to us.

From what we know and Ashley and looking at her background,

speaking with friends, family, you know,

the people that she worked with, she was a graduate,

she was doing well, working for the local authority.

She was extremely well-liked, from what we know at the minute.

So why... why wouldn't he tell us what's going on?

And we can't ignore the fact that, from his behaviour,

it strongly supports or suggests that

it's something he's involved in.

So that is Ashley and Lee.

When you review the content of the phone,

you see someone living their life,

and she's a normal 28-year-old.

Go!

LAUGHTER

There is reference in conversations that we've reviewed on the phone

where they are talking about moving house

and taking those next steps. They get a dog.

She refers to the dog as being a sort of precursor

to having a child with him.

But certainly from the way Ashley talked about him to her friends,

I would say that she was very much in love with him.

Ashley's family released a tribute to her this afternoon.

They said that she was "our shining light,

"and our hearts are broken into a million pieces."

They say her laugh, smile and energy were infectious in any room.

The family are trying to come to terms with what happened.

They say this doesn't make any sense

and their lives will never be the same again.

Sarge, I've got some CCTV to show you.

Erm, so we know that Ashley sends a message

around 11:40... Yeah.

..to say that her car alarm's going off.

So we've got this car here -

now, the real time for that is 23:36.31 -

going into the road.

This Ring doorbell gets activated, and that's at 23:36.

But then we've got...

The same car's back again...

..45 minutes later.

It turns into the road at 00:29:54,

pulls over for, like, a few seconds,

then pulls off down the road.

Then it leaves the road at 00:33.07,

so that's, what, just over three minutes it's in the road.

And that's when the murders happened. OK.

What we've got is absolutely key.

Really significant CCTV.

In terms of a vehicle that is of interest,

we've got CCTV at the relevant time.

So, Chris, will you just talk about that CCTV and what it shows? Yep.

At 00:30 hours, we've got vehicle turning into Leinster Road.

A number of neighbours collectively all hear

this distinctive drilling type noise around half past midnight

and hearing a female scream before all going quiet.

Her neighbours have doorbell footage.

She accesses it live at 00:39, which is confirmed post-offence,

and you can see the front of the premises

with the door insecure and the hallway lights illuminated.

We absolutely need to track that vehicle.

Where has it gone after? What have we got it pre-murder?

Who is associated to that vehicle?

That's going to be critical.

COMMENTATOR: Anfield rises

to remember nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel,

who died in such tragic circumstances.

NEWS: Detectives are repeating their message

that this is not a time to stay silent

when it comes to catching the killer of a nine-year-old girl.

It's too quiet.

It's too quiet.

It's hard to deal with.

She was always with me.

I find myself going out to do something

so I'm not in the house with the silence.

Hey, guys, it's me, Olivia,

and today I'm going to make a cocktail.

I've already got a straw and then I've got a cup.

And then, basically, it's a kid's cocktail.

So I have a lemonade and...

The lid does not want to come off properly, does it?

She was polite, caring...

..like this.

Don't worry!

..lovable.

I was proud of everything.

How important is it to get justice for Olivia?

Needs to be caught and put away.

Throw away the key.

So she never died in vain.

SHE SNIFFS

SHE SIGHS

If there's anybody out there that knows what's happened,

who's done it, they need to come forward.

They need to speak to the police.

They need to tell the truth.

You can't keep something like this to yourself.

I-it...

There's been far too many incidents

where innocent people have been seriously hurt.

Or killed. Or killed.

I never heard of people with guns when I was a child.

Definitely not. No.

Oh, definitely not.

Nowadays, it's a frightening, frightening world we're living in.

Oh, God. Breaks your heart.

We should preserve them, shouldn't we?

If it starts raining, make sure you keep all the cards.

You'd want to read them, wouldn't you?

Detectives receive an update about the murder weapon used

in Olivia's shooting.

What do you make of the round that's been used?

It's really puzzling.

I had a look at the rifling marks.

See the difference in those two bullets? Yeah.

Can you see there's a very distinctive rifling mark

running like that, right? Yeah.

That is a Glock pistol bullet.

Then we've got one that's gone into the door.

That is a revolver bullet.

Now, I'm concerned that we may have two guns on the scene.

High risk, isn't it? The gunmen taking two guns.

I can't wait for the phone call from neighbours

just to give us that confirmation and say...

What time are you expecting that, then.

How long does that normally take?

Andy said... Did that this morning, didn't he?

Andy said we will have it this afternoon.

OK. That's brilliant. Thank you. Thanks, Ellen.

All right. Take care. Bye.

Two guns.

OK. So, the ones from the street and the ones from the house.

Not the same firearm.

Switched them round, hasn't he? Yeah. It is extremely unusual.

I can't say that I've ever come across that situation

where one gunman changed guns in the middle of a gunfight.

Could it be that something went wrong?

He had a jam... It's jammed.

..and that's why he swapped guns?

Whoever's used the Glock may know that occasionally they jam,

which is why they took a revolver.

There's a real determination to kill here.

GUNSHOTS

The gunman knows about handguns.

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He may well have been involved in firearms discharge previously.

He'll understand the way the police investigate these matters.

The fact that two guns have been used, that shows

a significant element of planning.

For that reason, we surmise this is high-level

serious and organised crime.

Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for coming.

I've got Detective Chief Superintendent Mark Cummins,

who's going to give you an update today.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Thank you for your time and attending this press conference

on the investigation into the tragic murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel.

I'm going to show you some footage in a moment

of a man that murdered Olivia.

I'm doing this because people may recognise what he's wearing.

This footage that we're looking at at the moment shows the gunman

running away from Kingsheath Avenue.

The gunman is wearing a black padded jacket,

a black balaclava, and also has dark trainers

with distinctive white soles.

He is described as approximately five foot seven tall

and of slim build.

This is the man we are hunting for.

Now, I know that there will be people shielding him

and helping this man avoid being found by the police.

This man is toxic.

He is toxic to our communities,

and if you're protecting him, he's toxic to you and your family.

I want you to place the loyalty that you have towards your family

above the loyalty that you may have to this man.

Olivia's family simply need to have justice.

My message to the gunman:

We will not rest until we find you.

And we will find you.

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