Boy, 16, led teen mob of thugs on brutal shootings sprees and an arson attack

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shootings and an awful arson attack. Harry O'Brien controlled a crew of dealers selling cannabis on the streets but his leading "lucrative" trade was exposed after a "feud" led to a brutal three shootings in three weeks in South Liverpool.One of the gun attacks saw bullets fired from an Audi at a BMW as two cars sped side-by-side past each other in the dead of night, Liverpool Echo reports.A bullet flew through the front door of an "entirely innocent" family's home and shot into their hallway stairs.

In a second attack, a gunman on an electric bike shot into a family's living room with bullets and fired into another victim's bedroom.Another attack saw O'Brien have petrol poured through the letterbox of a a mother's home and set ablaze, as she and her children ran for their lives.O'Brien is still aged 17 but the ECHO today convinced one of Liverpool's top judges it was in the public interest to lift reporting restrictions on his case, allowing his brutality from December 2020 and June 2021 to be brought to light.Liverpool Crown Court heard the attacks on two families, the Franchettis and the Rosarios.

Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, claimed they were "the manifestation of a feud" between O'Brien's gang and "others".He said: "Unhappily, the lives of entirely innocent people, including young children, were put at risk by the cowardly and callous acts of all those involved."O'Brien, who arranged and took part in all three shootings, "orchestrated the arson" and the cannabis plot was "his enterprise".