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Innocents will be caught in gang war crossfire, police feared before Elle tragedy
Daily Express|December 28, 2022
A SENIOR police officer had spoken of his fear that innocents would be “caught in the crossfire” of gang war just two weeks before Elle Edwards was shot dead in a pub.
- Jonathan Humphries and Stewart Whittingham
Innocents will be caught in gang war crossfire, police feared before Elle tragedy

The 26-year-old beautician was celebrating Christmas Eve when a gunman opened fire at the entrance to the Lighthouse on the Wirral.

Four others were wounded. A local man and a woman have been arrested during investigations.

Community policing inspector Alan McKeon had warned about warring gangs linked to a spate of recent local shootings including Olivia Pratt-Korbel, nine, who was killed after a man was chased into her home in August.

Insp McKeon added that innocent victims were “going about their daily business” but were in “the wrong place at the wrong time.

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