Appeal following assault in Anfield

We are appealing for information following a serious assault inside a home in Anfield on Saturday 28 December.

At around 7.30pm, it was reported that three males entered a home on Harrow Road and sprayed an unknown substance at a 16-year-old boy.

Emergency services attended the scene and the victim was taken to hospital where he remains in a critical condition.

Enquiries are ongoing into the incident and tests are being carried out to establish what the substance is.

The victim also sustained slash wounds to his head, back and buttocks during the assault.

Detectives are continuing to investigate the incident, which includes house-to-house and CCTV enquiries.

Detective Inspector Michael Fletcher said: “An investigation is ongoing to establish the circumstances of this incident, but at this early stage we believe it to be a targeted attack.

“The incident has left a 16-year-old boy in hospital in a critical condition and officers are supporting his family at this time.

“We understand that the community will be rightly concerned by this incident, but please be assured that we are determined to find the three males involved in this incident.

“We believe that the suspects were wearing tracksuits, had face coverings and spoke with Liverpool accents.

“If you have any information about this incident, please come forward as a matter of urgency.

“If you live in the area or were driving through at the time of the incident, please review your CCTV or dashcam footage to see if you captured anything that could help our enquiries.”

If you have CCTV, doorbell or dashcam footage which may help with the investigation then please upload it here:

https://unitedkingdom1cpp-portal.digital-policing.co.uk/merseyside/appeal/CCTV-Harrow-Road

If you have any information, you can call 101 or DM @MerPolCC on social media, quoting reference number 24001086343. You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.