The mother of murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has joined other families affected by gun crime to urge communities to speak out, almost three years on from her daughter’s shooting.

Olivia was shot by gunman Thomas Cashman as he chased another drug dealer into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on August 22 2022.

Her death was the third fatal shooting within a week in Merseyside, where 28-year-old Ashley Dale had been shot in her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, in the early hours of the previous day and Sam Rimmer, 22, had been killed in Dingle on August 16.

Speaking ahead of the third anniversary of her death, Olivia’s mother Cheryl Korbel said: “My little girl was only nine years old when she was shot in her own home. She had her whole life ahead of her and the pain of her loss is

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