A murder described by detectives as “one of the most brutal and disturbing crimes ever seen on Merseyside” remains unsolved - 12 years on.
Mum-of-three Lucy Hargreaves was asleep and lying on a sofa in the living room of her home in
Walton when three masked men burst inside the property and shot her.
The 22-year-old was then doused in petrol and set alight before the killers fled in a getaway car.
Now, on the 12th anniversary of her death. police are appealing for help to catch the killers, and are banking on criminals’ “changing loyalties” as the way forward to solving the murder.
During the collapsed trial of two men it emerged that the apparent motive of the killing was a targeted attack against Lucy’s partner, Gary Campbell.
It was alleged that the murder was retribution for an incident in 1993 when Mr Campbell was a passenger in a stolen car that hit and killed a four-year-old boy.
He spoke to the ECHO, in 2008, insisting he would have “gladly taken the place” of his girlfriend.
Mr Campbell said then: “I know they came in that house looking for me. I wish we could have swapped places that night.
