Merseyside Detectives: The Murders of Ashley and Olivia (2024) s01e01 Episode Script
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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 BURS
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?
INDISTINC
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'sshe'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.
Ermbut 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
GUNSHO
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.
GUNSHO
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.
This programme contains scenes
with violence from the start which
some viewers may find distressing
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 BURS
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?
INDISTINC
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'sshe'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.
Ermbut 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
GUNSHO
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.
GUNSHO
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.