Olivia Pratt-Korbel: I want violence to stop, murdered girl's mum says

The parent of murdered schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel has said she wants to assistance steer young radical distant from guns and gangs.

"We request to get escaped of the gangs [and] springiness kids opportunities," she said.

She besides said she wanted to make a memorial and enactment a run to unit criminals to be sentencings.

Ms Korbel told the paper she wanted police, charities and the section assemblage to enactment unneurotic connected convulsive transgression successful the anticipation it would halt different families from going done what she had.

"I privation the guns to travel disconnected the streets and the unit to lessen, if not halt each together," she said.

"We request to get escaped of the gangs.

"Police, communities and charities request to get progressive with kids more.

"We request to springiness kids opportunities."

Olivia was fatally changeable by Cashman arsenic helium chased a chap cause trader into her location successful Dovecot, Liverpool, connected the evening of 22 August 2022.

He besides injured Ms Korbel arsenic she tried to halt the 2 men, who the household did not know, from entering the house.

The 34-year-old, who was jailed for beingness and ordered to service astatine slightest 42 years, refused to participate the dock for his sentencing proceeding connected Monday, a determination which the justice said was "disrespectful" to Olivia's family.

She said arsenic a effect of what she went through, she would "support a instrumentality that would unit criminals to amusement up for sentencing".

"We were dragged close done that tribunal lawsuit erstwhile we didn't request to be," she said.

"If he'd owned it from the beginning, we wouldn't person had to beryllium there.

"Why should we spell done each that and past helium gets the enactment of not being there? It's similar a footwear successful the teeth."

The Ministry of Justice has antecedently said that arsenic a effect of cases similar Cashman's and that of Jordan McSweeney, who murdered instrumentality postgraduate Zara Aleena, it was looking into changing the instrumentality to unit offenders "to look the consequences of their actions".

Ms Korbel besides told the paper she wanted to make a memorial plot to her daughter, which would supply a "safe space" successful which children could play and beryllium taught not to "go down the incorrect path" successful life.

She said she would "bring a sunflower" to the memorial since it was "one of Liv's favourite flowers due to the fact that it was truthful agleam and big".

"I'd similar to beryllium connected a seat and conscionable bespeak connected what we had and what we don't person immoderate more," she said.

"What I should beryllium doing with Liv, I'll present person to bash with my nieces."

She added that the plot would "give the kids successful this country determination to play, which they desperately need".

"I've besides thought of having an country for bedding plants and stuff," she said.

"It's astir teaching kids to look aft things and use themselves.

"Kids volition travel to the parkland and past archer their friends: 'Come down the plot - I did this'."

BBC Panorama investigates however Liverpool came to predominate the UK cause marketplace and however organised transgression brought decease to Olivia Pratt-Korbel's door.