{"id":23440,"date":"2022-09-21T19:40:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T23:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=23440"},"modified":"2022-09-21T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T23:40:46","slug":"olivia-pratt-korbel-record-200k-reward-in-hunt-for-girls-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/09\/21\/olivia-pratt-korbel-record-200k-reward-in-hunt-for-girls-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Record \u00a3200k reward in hunt for girl’s killer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A record reward of up to \u00a3200,000 has been offered in the search for the gunman who killed Olivia Pratt-Korbel.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The nine-year-old\u00a0was shot during a struggle<\/a>\u00a0when two men burst into her home in Liverpool on 22 August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The reward has increased after Crimestoppers founder Lord Ashcroft doubled an initial pledge of \u00a350,000 to match \u00a3100,000 put forward by a private donor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It will be paid for information leading to the conviction of Olivia’s killer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new amount was announced as police revealed details of the gun used in the shooting, and vowed to catch “this toxic individual who robbed Olivia of her future”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nine people have so far been arrested<\/a> but no charges have been brought.<\/p>\n

Olivia’s mother Cheryl Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door on the gunman, who was chasing and firing at another man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He continued shooting and hit the schoolgirl with a fatal shot to her chest. Neither of the men were known to the family, in the Dovecot area.<\/p>\n

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Merseyside Police said it had identified two weapons used by the killer, with a .38 revolver responsible for the fatal shot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Glock-type self-loading 9mm pistol was also used by the gunman the same night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police released an image of a Glock pistol similar to one of two weapons used on the night of the killing<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Detectives have discovered that the pistol had been used in two other attacks in Dovecot over a two-and-a-half-year period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The first was in Wimbourne Close on 27 January 2020 when a 19-year-old man was shot through a front door.<\/p>\n

The second was on 8 August – two weeks before Olivia’s death in Finch Way, just a short distance from her home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On this occasion two rival groups in cars and on motorbikes fired shots indiscriminately near some playing fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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