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Fifth severe incident in 11 days

The stabbing is the fifth severe incident to take place in south Sefton in 11 days.

After a home was firebombed in Seaforth and a man shot in Thornton, both on July 25, police introduced special stop and search powers covering Bootle, Seaforth and neighbouring parts of south Sefton.

Yet that has not quelled the violence - shots were fired by gunmen on a scrambler bike at a home on Kilburn Street, Litherland, on Friday and another home was shot on Sunday.

That shooting was on Harris Drive in Bootle, just a few streets from today’s stabbing.