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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Ellen Kirwin

Unsolved shooting murder, prisoner stabbed to death and man's drunken rampage

Good morning, these are the latest ECHO headlines today.

Detectives could be just one phone call away from solving street murder

A killer who repeatedly shot a man outside a Liverpool takeaway is still walking our streets five years on from his murderous attack.

Aaron Lewis was hit by up to eight bullets fired from two different guns outside Anna Jung’s chip shop in Wavertree on February 1, 2017.

Mr Lewis, 26, had ordered food from the Grosvenor Road takeaway and was waiting outside when he was gunned down in the street at around 7pm.

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A 9mm handgun and a .44 calibre revolve r, both of which were recovered by police, were used in the attack.

Arrests have previously been made in connection with the murder but nobody has been charged.

Detective Chief Inspector Cath Cummings today urged for someone to provide Merseyside Police with the details they need to change that.

Read the full story here.

Ex director of Altcourse prison says 'I did all I could' as violence spiked

The former director of Altcourse prison told an inquest that he believed he did "all he could reasonably do" to make it safer despite rocketing levels of violence on his watch.

Bob McCombe, who took over at the private G4S run jail in May 2013, was grilled over what strategies senior managers implemented in the months before inmate Darren Ashcroft was stabbed to death on November 14, 2014.

Mr Ashcroft, 35, died after being attacked by 41-year-old Keir Michael on the Fazakerley prison's troubled Valentines Green wing - where police investigating his death later found 22 makeshift weapons including knives and razor blades.

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Michael had previously made threats to harm staff and fellow prisoners, and intelligence reports suggested he had weapons stashed around the wing.

The jury inquest, sitting into its second week at Gerard Majella Courthouse, has heard the prison had no effective system for monitoring whether recommendations from its three intelligence analysts, including cell searches, were actually carried out.

Read the full story here.

Drunken rampage saw man assault three officers and his own dad

A man on a drunken rampage assaulted three police officers and his own dad.

In the early hours of November 3 police were called to the Concert Square area after reports of an assault, Liverpool Magistrates Court heard.

Pragash Amarasingam, 27, was found with injuries to his face and hands and witnesses told how he had been aggressive to a number of people on bicycles.

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He was aggressive with the police and verbally abusive and lashed out hitting one officer on the leg and was shouting and swearing.

He was arrested for being drunk and disorderly and had to be repeatedly told about his language.

Read the full story here.

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