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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Tom Duffy

Helicopter up as police search cemetery for wanted man

A police helicopter was spotted above West Derby cemetery during a search for a wanted man.

Photographs of the helicopter above the cemetery on Lower House Lane appeared on social media earlier today ( Tuesday.)

One comment read: "All going off in West Derby cem at the mo."

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Police said they had responded to reports a wanted man was in the area. The area was searched and police have now left the scene.

A spokesperson for the force said to the ECHO : "Reports of a wanted man in the area. An area search carried out but nobody located and incident has been stood down."

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