Mourners to remember Olivia Pratt-Korbel with ‘splash of pink’ at funeral
Pupils at St Margaret Mary’s Junior School, next to the church, will also be wearing pink to remember their classmate.
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Your support makes all the difference.Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel will be remembered with a “splash of pink” as her funeral is held.
The funeral mass for the schoolgirl, who was shot at her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, will take place at 11am on Thursday at St Margaret Mary’s Church in Knotty Ash.
A notice from the family requested all those attending wore a splash of pink.
Pupils at St Margaret Mary’s Junior School, next to the church, will also be wearing pink to remember their classmate, headteacher Rebecca Wilkinson said.
She said: “We were mindful of the fact that the children had to take some sort of role today, in spite of the fact that they’re not going to the church.
“The wishes of the family in church were that everyone wear a splash of pink so today in school the children are all wearing a splash of pink.
“We have got pink hearts in the windows facing the main road, we have got pink ribbons on the fence.”
Each of the 480 pupils at the school will be creating a flower which will form part of a memorial for Olivia, Mrs Wilkinson said.
And school uniform rules will be relaxed to allow nail varnish.
Mrs Wilkinson said: “One of the amazing memories that the class teacher and children shared was one day Olivia came to school wearing pink nail varnish and she spent the whole day hiding her hands so that I wouldn’t see the fact she was wearing pink nail varnish!
“So for that reason, as well as a splash of pink, we have said that the children can wear pink nail varnish today if they so wish.”
Police are continuing to hunt or the gunman who chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee into Olivia’s family home at about 10pm on August 22.
Olivia died from a gunshot wound to her chest and her mother Cheryl Korbel, 46, was injured.
On Wednesday, founder of charity Crimestoppers Lord Ashcroft offered a £50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for her death.