More arrests in link with the Liverpool shooting

• A man has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender following the death of Olivia Pratt-Korbel.
• The nine-year-old was shot dead as her mother tried to stop a gunman from entering her home.
• Merseyside Police had previously arrested three men in connection with her death.

Following the death of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot in her home, a man has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

On August 22, the nine-year-old was killed as her mother attempted to stop a gunman from entering their home in Liverpool.

According to Merseyside Police, a suspect was stopped on the M42 on Sunday evening and the vehicle was seized.

The 34-year-old driver from Liverpool has been arrested.

In the early hours of Sunday, a man, 34, also from Liverpool, was arrested in Runcorn on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

Two more men, aged 29 and 41, were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

The suspects are still being questioned by detectives in police custody.

Merseyside Police had previously arrested two men, aged 33 and 36, on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder, but both were released on bail.

At around 22:00 BST, Olivia was shot in the chest by a gunman who had chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into her home on Kingsheath Avenue in Dovecot.

Neither of the men who came into the house knew anything about her family.

Cheryl Korbel, her mother, was shot in the wrist as she attempted to close the door on the shooter.

On the first day of Olivia’s inquest on August 30, Liverpool Senior Coroner Andre Rebello stated that armed response officers discovered her with a gunshot wound to her chest.

He claimed that a police officer “scooped” Olivia up and ran with her to try to save her life, pressing his hand against her wound as she was driven to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in the back of a police car.

A minute’s applause was held nine minutes into the Everton v Liverpool game on Saturday.

At the Premier League game, an anti-knife and gun crime banner was unfurled in the Bullens Road stand, spanning both Everton and Liverpool fans.

Olivia’s funeral is scheduled for September 15 at St Margaret Mary’s Church in Dovecot, and her family has asked that mourners wear a “splash of pink” to the service.

A fundraising page set up to help Olivia’s family has raised over £40,000.

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