So a 9 year old girl is killed in England by a male coward and they still call him what he is not.

I have no idea what the op is chatting about.

What did they call the perpetrator?

Because the kind of reporting you’re looking for is the kind of emotive rhetoric used by tabloid rags like the Daily Mail to try and get idiots all fired up and keep their revenue rolling in. It’s a very successful strategy if you’re not interested in reporting the news and instead you’re more interested in winding people up. That’s why other media outlets don’t really refer to scumbags who engage in scumbag behaviour.

Calling him 'a coward' would seem an inherently risky thing to do, (as well as excessively tabloidy as said).

"I think Tommo next door might have had something to do with it, I might go and arrest him myself seeing as he's being described as a bit of a coward."

Whereas as with a bit of coke in him he is likely as brave as a lion, albeit also a scumbag with a reckless disregard for his own well-being and others in the vicinity.

What a bizarre thing to object to OP.

IMO I think it’s the Guardian reading remoaners types with their private health and dental care packages that be screaming at the TV and they be screaming give the man a chance it was not deliberate, whist the mother of the murdered child is in floods of tears.

The man who did this deserves life in prison.

Castration required - to make sure his like don't breed. That'd be the minimum, I think this likely exceeds manslaughter. He shot with intent to kill or injure, it wasn't done in the heat of anger etc. If he had fired randomly into a crowd and killed someone, it wouldn't be manslaughter. And that's effectively what he did - three people in a hallway.

Why a coward? I don't get that. As someone else said there are a lot of things you could call such a person, but I don't get why coward is one of them. He might well be a coward, but equally he might not. From the details I've read of the case there is nothing that would indicate one way or another.

Unfortunately it happened in a rough area where stabbings and killing have happened, unfortunately another horror story was inevitable

They guy who ran into their house (intended target) was part of a criminal gang and out on early release for a string of burglaries.

His friends ran in and took him out of the house to hospital and left a 9 year old girl dying in her Mother's (who was also shot) arms.

Evil people walk among us.