Three men have been convicted of murdering a 36-year-old man following a drive-by shooting in Merseyside.

Rikki Berry died after a balaclava-clad man riding an electric bike fired four shots at him in Quarryside Drive, Kirkby at 6.33pm on 17 July 2024.

A criminology student at Liverpool University has been sentenced for the rape and sexual assault of two female students.

Ewan Blair, 20, of Crown Place, Liverpool, met both women in the autumn term of 2023 and both said he seemed friendly at first.
He met one of the women in a bar in Liverpool city centre and talked with her on several occasions as the evening went on. He seemed chatty and friendly.

Blair persuaded the woman to let him go with her to her accommodation. But, when there, he quickly became physically and verbally aggressive and she became scared.

A mother who hid her new baby in a drawer in her bed for three years and fed her through a syringe has been jailed.

The woman, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, hid the birth of her baby girl from her family and friends.

The baby was born in 2020 with a cleft palate and the mother, who says she gave birth in a bath at her home in Cheshire, initially fed her herself.