{"id":118561,"date":"2021-03-25T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=118561"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:26:10","slug":"murder-fugitive-suspected-of-shooting-teen-and-mum-of-3-in-cold-blood-is-almost-in-my-sights-after-16-years-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/murder-fugitive-suspected-of-shooting-teen-and-mum-of-3-in-cold-blood-is-almost-in-my-sights-after-16-years-on-the-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder fugitive suspected of shooting teen and mum-of-3 in cold blood is almost in my sights after 16 years on the run"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHEN Peter Bleksley saw the e-fit come to life, he knew he'd got his hands on a new weapon in his hunt for one of Britain's most wanted fugitives: Kevin Parle. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The veteran sleuth has been scouring the globe for Parle for two years to make him answer the charges against him \u2013 which include the murders of a child and an innocent young mum-of-three.<\/p>\n

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Liam Kelly was just 16 when he was shot dead in Liverpool in 2004. <\/p>\n

And 22-year-old Lucy Hargreaves was gunned down in her own home by a trio of masked killers a year later.<\/p>\n

Cops believe Parle was involved in both killings and he'd even been arrested in connection with Liam's murder, but he was released on bail \u2013 and he's been on the run ever since. <\/p>\n

Peter Bleksley, a former Met copper who was the star of Channel 4's Hunted, has now made it his mission to track Parle down and bring him to justice. <\/p>\n

His podcast about the search, Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle, has brought Parle's story to the attention of millions, throwing up new leads and sightings of the alleged killer. <\/p>\n

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And Bleksley's latest weapons in the hunt for Parle are computer-generated moving images of what the 40-year-old fugitive could look like today.<\/p>\n

"Bit by bit, day by day, we're shrinking the world for Kevin Parle," Bleksley says. <\/p>\n

"We're going to squeeze the globe so tightly that eventually, his six-foot-five ginger head pops up, and law enforcement can slap the handcuffs on him."<\/p>\n

Teen gunned down<\/h2>\n

Parle's alleged killing spree began with a bang in the dead of night.<\/p>\n

Liam Kelly was getting out of a car in the early hours of June 19, 2004, whenhe was approached by two men \u2013 one of whom had a shotgun. <\/p>\n

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The teen was shot in the arm and chest \u2013 mortally wounded, he was able to drag himself to a nearby house to get help, but by the time paramedics arrived it was too late.<\/p>\n

"A young man was denied the opportunity to grow, to mature, to enter manhood, to find a partner, to have a family," Bleksley rages.<\/p>\n

"Nobody has described Liam to me as a model student \u2013 well, at 16, nor was I \u2013 but he was denied opportunity with his life so cruelly taken away from him." <\/p>\n

A 6 ft 5 man with ginger hair named Kevin Parle was arrested in connection with the crime, but he was bailed while police investigated an alibi which later turned out to be false.<\/p>\n

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In 2006, Anthony Campbell pleaded guilty to Liam's murder \u2013 in court, it was argued that Campbell was motivated by revenge after Liam threw a bicycle through a window at Campbell's aunt's house because Campbell hadn't paid him a \u00a3200 debt. <\/p>\n

A second man, Peter Sinclair, also admitted a role in Liam's cold-blooded killing \u2013 he said he'd helped a third person involved in the murder by acting as a lookout while they burned clothing which might contain evidence. <\/p>\n

Sinclair identified that person as Kevin Parle \u2013 who was already on the run. <\/p>\n

Mum shot and burned<\/h2>\n

Between Liam's murder and one of his killers' conviction, another heinous crime rocked Liverpool \u2013 and would also end up being linked with Parle. <\/p>\n

Lucy Hargreaves, 22, was lying on her living room sofa while her partner, Gary, was sleeping upstairs with their two-year-old daughter Faye.<\/p>\n

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Luckily, the couple's other two kids were away with relatives at the time of the attack August 3, 2005.<\/p>\n

Three masked men stormed into the house and shot Lucy dead with a shotgun.<\/p>\n

They then set about dosing the innocent mum-of-three's body with petrol before lighting it and dashing out the house. <\/p>\n

Upstairs, Gary had been woken by Lucy's screams and the gunshots.<\/p>\n

"Gary grabbed their child and escaped the inferno by smashing his way out of a first floor window and leaping to safety," Bleksley says. <\/p>\n

"He then returned to the house and dragged Lucy's lifeless body from the blaze. A ghastly crime." <\/p>\n

Britain’s most wanted fugitives<\/h3>\n

Kevin Parle is the only person on the National Crime Agency’s most wanted list who’s believed to be involved in two separate murders. <\/p>\n

Some of the other criminals on the list include:<\/p>\n