Shocked mourners leave flowers and cards near scene where 12-year-old was stabbed on Thursday night
The news of 12-year-old Ava White’s death spread slowly across Liverpool on Friday morning. Christmas shoppers, unaware of her killing, came into the city centre to be greeted by police cordons closing off much of Church Street and surrounding areas where the stabbing took place on Thursday night.
“She was everyone’s baby. It could have been anyone’s child,” said 51-year-old Hayley Hughes, who came to pay her respects at a small flower memorial near the crime scene. Hughes said that, while she had heard of stabbings in Liverpool before, she did not expect something like this to happen in the city centre to such a young child. “She only came in to see the lights switched on,” she said.
