It was suggested last night that the brutal killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel may have been sparked by a £1 million cocaine theft against a violent criminal group that upended Liverpool’s criminal underworld.
According to sources familiar with the city’s organised criminal groups, the gang, which was previously considered to be “untouchable,” is “still enraged” at getting “ripped off” during the raid in May 2020.
Reports state that the robbers broke into a home not far from Olivia’s family’s residence and beat up a father and son who were guarding narcotics for the gang.
They later made off with 30 kg of cocaine, which is estimated to be worth almost £1 million.
According to some estimations, the narcotics might have a street worth of almost £2.5 million.
The Sun was informed by sources that the gang is now looking for people they think are responsible.
And it’s been speculated that Joseph Nee, a 35-year-old convicted drug dealer who was allegedly the target of the shooting that tragically claimed Olivia’s life, may have been complicit in the gang’s vengeance scheme.
Today, a former Scotland Yard investigator made the assertion that a criminal currently serving a life sentence was responsible for the wave of violence that resulted in Olivia’s death.
‘I have been informed by a source I deem reputable that most of this violence is being coordinated by a guy who is now in jail but regrettably has access to mobile phones and has significant power from behind a cell door,’ Peter Bleksley told The Mirror.
The individuals who lost the $1 million worth of cocaine are Liverpool’s top criminals, a source informed The Sun in the meanwhile.
No one could comprehend that someone would attempt to defraud them. Some were put in prison in May after the police were able to solve the case by breaking into their encrypted phones.
However, the Liverpool gang is still incensed and has been hunting down anybody they believe was responsible.
According to rumour, Nee found some information for them.
The group was targeted in May 2020 when four men armed with an axe and a baton went for a narcotics stash house on Croxdale Road West, near to Olivia’s residence.
Before collecting 30kg of cocaine, Richard Caswell and the brothers Jason and Craig Cox of Manchester broke into the house and attacked a father and son in charge of the contraband.
Drug dealer Leon Atkinson, a partner in crime with police murderer Dale Cregan, purchased some of the narcotics.
Nee, a resident of Dovecote, is thought to have been the shooting’s intended victim.
While attempting to escape a shooter in a mask, he made his way into Olivia’s family’s home. As he raced Nee inside the building, the shooter fatally wounded Olivia.
While Nee, who had also been wounded, was being transported to the hospital by his buddies in a black Audi, Olivia lay dying in her mother’s arms.
Detectives were speaking to a guy who was with Nee at the time of the shooting, according to Merseyside Police Detective Chief Superintendent Mark Kameen, head of investigations.
More than £20,000 is raised by wellwishers for Olivia’s devastated family.
For the benefit of Olivia Pratt-mourning Korbel’s family, thousands of pounds have been raised.
The text of the fundraiser states: “We are collecting [money] to support the family at this difficult time.
We want to assist in any way we can since we are unable to fathom the suffering they are all through. Let’s make sure this little angel has the fitting send-off.
Over £20,000 has now been raised in total, exceeding the initial goal.
He said that authorities had located and talked with the Audi’s driver. Nee, whose identity has never been made public by the police, is still receiving treatment in the hospital and will be sent back to jail for violating his parole, according to Mr. Kameen.
Cheryl, the mother of Olivia, had been undergoing medical care but was now discharged.
Nee was once a member of an organised crime group that received a total term of 10 years in prison for a series of thefts in North West England. The group was apprehended after Nee gave police a 125 mph pursuit across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Photos of Nee at HMP Kirkham from 2019 seem to have been posted on Instagram by an accomplice and show him standing in the sun with a group of guys while bragging about life in prison with the words “butlins with bars” and “costa del kirkham.”
650 male inmates are housed in 24 units at Kirkham, an open prison. Prisoners have access to a gym, snooker, and pool tables, and each apartment includes a phone and a kitchen.
Nee was sentenced to six and a half years in prison in 2009 for his participation in a criminal gang that assisted in distributing heroin and crack cocaine on Liverpool’s streets.
Shorter-term offenders have the right to automatic release halfway through their sentence, and they may be brought back if they get into difficulty with the law to serve out the rest of their original sentence.
It was discovered last night that a Nee relative had posted something on Facebook with the title, “Police are slime,” and the addition, “Snitches get stitches.” When the post was published is unclear.
Police have spoken with him, but a source informed The Sun that he isn’t being particularly cooperative and isn’t thrilled about the prospect of going back to jail.
Serena Kennedy, the chief of Merseyside Police, has asked citizens to fight the “anti-grass” mentality that exists in certain parts of Liverpool and has urged criminals to work with the law enforcement.
However, it has recently come to light that a message describing police as the “scum of the earth” and a terrifying warning against sharing information were also found on the Facebook page of one of Nee’s family members. When the post was published is unclear.
In a terrible incident that shocked the country on Monday, a balaclava-clad gangster who was following a convicted burglar and former heroin dealer into Olivia’s family home fatally shot the nine-year-old youngster while seriously injuring her mother Cheryl. A video from last night surfaced, including the sound of four gunshots.
It has also been revealed that investigators looking into Olivia’s gruesome murder think they know who the main suspect is as a result of several requests for information.
According to The Daily Mail, the identity mentioned is that of an armed robber who was arrested for a brutal theft on a security vehicle. A “tit-for-tat” narcotics gang turf war is still a possibility for the detectives.
It happens at the same time as police looking into the shooting of nine-year-old Olivia issued a warning to her assailant: “We will not rest until we find you and we will find you.”
Merseyside Police’s head of investigations, Detective Chief Superintendent Mark Kameen, said that the department was investigating “a number of extremely good lines of inquiry” in regard to Monday’s murder.
He said that “we have had a number of identities supplied to us” and that it was unclear whether the shooter had gone internationally.
“My message is the same – we will not rest until we find you and we will find you,” he declared, addressing the murderer.
Following the deadly shooting of council employee Ashley Dale in Old Swan, Liverpool, on Sunday, two persons have been detained.
The 28-year-old was discovered fatally injured in a home’s backyard. He was a member of Knowsley Council’s environmental health team. Ms. Dale was allegedly not the intended victim.
Sam Rimmer, 22, was shot dead in Dingle, Liverpool, on Tuesday, August 16, making it the third gun shooting in Liverpool in less than two weeks. Three men have been detained on suspicion of his murder.