Woman dies after being found with gunshot wounds in Liverpool garden

Officers were called to a house on Leinster Road in the Old Swan area (Alamy/PA)

A woman has died after she was found with gunshot wounds in the garden of a home in the Old Swan area of Liverpool, Merseyside Police said.

Officers were called just after 12.40am on Sunday to a house on Leinster Road and found a woman in the rear garden of the property with injuries to her body consistent with gunshot wounds, the force said.