Emotional plea to witnesses of shooting

THE mother of a teenage girl shot dead outside a hairdresser’s shop in Birmingham yesterday made an emotional appeal for witnesses to come forward.

Marcia Shakespear, mother of 17-year-old Latisha Shakespear, who was shot in Aston last Thursday, said a part of her had died when her daughter was killed. She yesterday told a news conference: "I don't want another incident, children to be killed. It has got to stop now.

"A part of me died when Latisha died. If you do not come forward after this what is left, what could be worse? This is as bad as it gets, please help."