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29.04.2022 - 21:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A 16-year-old boy who led a teen mob in three shootings and a horrifying arson attack has been jailed.
Harry O'Brien ran a 'graft' line and a team of drug dealers selling cannabis - but his illegal business was brought to light after a feud led to three shootings in under a month.
One attack saw a gunman fire at a BMW from an Audi as the two vehicles raced side-by-side at night, Manchester Evening News reports.
One bullet was shot through the front door of an innocent family's home and landed in the hallway.
In a separate incident, an attacker travelling on an electric bike sprayed bullets into a family's living room and fired and another victim's bedroom.
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.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the attacks targeted members and associates of two families, the Franchettis and the Rosarios.
Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, said he had no doubt they were 'the manifestation of a feud' between O'Brien's gang and 'others' with 'whom they had a real or perceived grievance, the nature of which has not emerged'.
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 planned and took part in all three shootings, 'orchestrated the arson', and the cannabis plot was 'his enterprise'. David Temkin, QC, prosecuting, said: "Harry O'Brien was at the heart of the criminality in
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