‘It’s crazy and it needs to stop’: shock and anger in Liverpool after week of violence

Analysis: as city reels from fatal shootings and stabbings, focus will now fall on its organised crime gangs

A week of shootings, stabbings, sorrow and anger has left people in Liverpool wondering whether it is safe to leave their homes.

On the same night that nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed by a masked gunman who had forced his way into her home in Dovecot, five miles away, a woman in her 50s was found with a fatal stab wound in her chest in a pub car park in Kirkby.