After The Murder of 9-Year-Old Olivia Pratt: Police Have Flooded the Street Where She Was Shot

Police flooded the street where Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed yesterday before carrying out searches with sniffer dogs as the hunt continues for the murder weapon.

Dozens of officers from the anti-gang Matrix squad arrived on the road in the Dovecot area of Liverpool for painstaking searches lasting several hours.

One local suggested police investigating the nine-year-old's killing could have received new information overnight.

'It's the largest police presence we have had here since last Monday when she was killed,' the resident told The Sun.

'They were looking under cars and in gardens and it seemed like they were looking for something specific.'

Police have launched a huge crackdown on organised crime in Liverpool in coordination with the National Crime Agency, known as 'Britain's FBI'.

In recent days there have been numerous reports of gang bosses moving drugs out of the city and fleeing to their foreign villas.

Last night an underworld source claimed the gangsters who ordered the shooting of burglar Joseph Nee - which led to Olivia's killing - were 'feeling the heat'.