Ashley Dale s heartbroken father Steve Dunne said history had repeated itself after she was killed nearly seven years after his youngest son was killed after being shot in a case of mistaken identity.
Lewis Dunne, 16, had been walking along the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Eldonian Village, Merseyside, in November 2015, when he was mistaken for a member of a rival gang.
Little Olivia Pratt-Korbel was likely the tragic victim of a vicious tit-for-tat war among feral gangsters in Liverpool when she was killed by a balaclava-clad gunman who stormed into her house, locals said.
Joseph Nee, 35, was jailed for nearly 45 months in 2018 for a string of burglaries before being automatically released part way through his sentence last year.