More details emerge of 'cowardly, thuggish' racist shooting of young girl

More details emerge of 'cowardly, thuggish' racist shooting of young girl

More details have emerged about the racist shooting of a nine-year-old girl in Bristol earlier this month, as police step up the hunt for two yobs who targeted the girl in the street in the north of the city. The police chief leading the investigation described it as a ‘cowardly, thuggish attack’, and said the police and the community ‘won’t tolerate hate in the city ’.

Speaking near the scene in Brentry , DCI Keith Smith outlined the level of resources Avon and Somerset were putting into finding the two teenagers, who a local Conservative councillor described as ‘despicable scum’, as both community leaders and the police urged those who know who did it to tell police.

The attack happened on Chakeshill Driv