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Four men arrested in connection with the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel have been conditionally bailed after her parents begged for her killer to come forward. 

The schoolgirl was shot in her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on August 22 when a gunman chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into the property at about 10pm.

Earlier this week a 34-year-old man from Liverpool, a 41-year-old man from Knowsley and a 29-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and questioned by police.

A 34-year-old man from Liverpool was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

Today Merseyside Police confirmed four men arrested following the murder have been conditionally bailed as enquiries continue.

The update comes after Olivia's mother Cheryl Korbel, who was injured in the shooting, paid tribute to her 'little shadow' in an emotional video filmed and released by Merseyside Police, where she called for those responsible for her daughter's death to 'own up'. 

She broke down in tears as she described how her daughter would never stop talking and said: 'That's what I miss the most, because I can't hear her talk.' 

In the video appeal, Ms Korbel told her daughter's killer: 'You know you've done wrong, so you need to own up.

'Like I taught my kids, you do something wrong, you own up to it.

'If anyone is hiding these guns they need to speak up because they need to be off the streets.

'No one, no one at all should have to go through this.'

Wearing a cast on her wrist after being injured during the shooting, Ms Korbel said the family had been planning days out and a trip to buy Olivia's new school uniform before she died.

She said: 'I didn't get that chance to go and get her school uniform. But I'll keep going, for Liv.'