Rachael Moore, a carer, died after being struck by a police car

Rachael Louise Moore (Image: Merseyside Police)

A police officer has been charged with causing death by careless driving after a young woman was killed in Liverpool on Christmas Eve three years ago.

Pc Scott Thompson, 32, of Merseyside Police, is due to appear in court next week after Rachael Moore, 22, a carer, was struck by a Merseyside Police car on Sheil Road in the Kensington area of the city just after 8pm on December 24 2022.

The officer was responding to an unrelated emergency call at the time of the collision.

Ms Moore, who was born in Derby and had been a university student in Liverpool, was walking home from her job as a carer at the time.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The charge comes after a

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