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Lucy Hargreaves was 22 when she was killed (Merseyside Police\/PA)<\/p>\nLucy Hargreaves, 22, was asleep on the sofa when three men burst into her home in Walton, Liverpool, on August 3 2005 and fatally injured her.<\/p>\n
The killers then set fire to the home on Lambourne Road, where her partner and two-year-old daughter were upstairs, and they had to escape through a window.<\/p>\n
Lucy Hargreaves was 22 when she was killed (Merseyside Police\/PA)<\/p>\n
Two decades on, her family released a previously unshared photograph of the mother-of-three, taken at college.<\/p>\n
They said: \u201cOver the past 20 years, people will have talked with family and friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cA number of people were contacted by males using a phone that was stolen, along with a vehicle used in Lucy\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people who received those calls, along with others, could have information which could be crucial in achieving justice for Lucy, her parents, sister, children and all her extended family and friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appeal directly to them to please come forward. Now is the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police arrested 21 people as part of their investigations, but no-one has been convicted.<\/p>\n
A comprehensive review into her murder was launched by Merseyside Police two years ago and remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
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The killers set fire to Lucy Hargreaves\u2019 home (Merseyside Police\/PA)<\/p>\n
Howard Rubbery, head of the serious case review unit, said: \u201cIt is now 20 years since Lucy was taken from her family in the most brutal of circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter carrying out the killing, the offenders ignored the cries of a toddler upstairs as they poured petrol around the house and set fire to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir callous and reckless actions could have claimed the lives of two more people that night, had they not escaped the flames by jumping from a window upstairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are as determined as ever to get justice for Lucy, whose death robbed her family of a loving mother and daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs with any unsolved murder, time is no barrier to our pursuit of justice for Lucy and we appeal to anyone with any information, no matter how small it may seem, to contact us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Hargreaves\u2019 family, who said they \u201cmiss her every single day\u201d, welcomed a focus on tackling violence against women and girls in recent years.<\/p>\n
They praised the families of other victims of gun crime, including the mothers of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt Korbel and Ashley Dale, 28, who were shot in their homes in separate incidents in Liverpool in August 2022.<\/p>\n
The family said: \u201cWe greatly admire the determination and guts of the families of those who have more recently been killed as a result of gun crime here in Merseyside.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mums of both Ashley Dale and Olivia Pratt Korbel have led a real and powerful community challenge to men of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family added: \u201cWe consider ourselves to be an ordinary local family with strong roots in the Walton, Norris Green, Croxteth and Dovecot areas of Liverpool.<\/p>\n
\u201cLucy\u2019s nanny Joyce was a strong mother of eight who had to cope with the loss of three granddaughters in her lifetime \u2013 including Lucy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer nanny Betty, left a widow aged 35 with six children to bring up, was awarded the British Empire Medal for her services to nursing as an auxiliary nurse in the Royal Liverpool Hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were two strong local women typical of their generation, and Lucy too was a strong woman who could have achieved so much had she only been given the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detectives are continuing to appeal for anyone with information about a gold Lexus car, believed to have been dumped shortly after the shooting on Richard Kelly Drive, Clubmoor, by a number of men who then ran in the direction of Normandale Road.<\/p>\n
Police previously said they wanted to speak to\u00a0Kevin Thomas Parle in connection with Ms Hargreaves\u2019 murder.<\/p>\n
Parle, who was believed to be living abroad, was also wanted in connection with the murder of Liam Kelly, 16, who was shot in the early hours of June 19 2004 in Dingle, Liverpool.<\/p>\n