A 16-year-old boy led a mob of teenage thugs in three shootings and a terrifying arson attack. Harry O'Brien controlled a 'graft' line and a crew of dealers selling cannabis on the streets.
But his trade was exposed after a feud led to three shootings in three weeks. One attack saw bullets fired from an Audi at a BMW, as the two cars raced side-by-side at night.
A stray bullet flew through the front door of an entirely innocent family home and landed on the hallway stairs. In another attack, a gunman on an electric bike peppered a family's living room with bullets and fired into another victim's bedroom, the Liverpool Echo has reported. READ MORE: Trio in stolen car drive wrong way up the M60 then try to run from police A court heard O'Brien, now 17, had petrol poured through the letterbox of a mum's home and set it ablaze, as she and her children ran for their lives.
Today he can be exposed after a judge agreed it was in the public interest to lift reporting restrictions in his case, so the public can understand the brutality he brought to south Liverpool between December 2020 and June 2021.
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