Pair arrested over Liverpool stabbing

A man and woman have been arrested after a 21-year-old was fatally stabbed in a bar.

Sam Cook, from Merseyside, died in hospital after being stabbed in the basement area of the Empire Bar in Liverpool’s city centre just before midnight on Saturday.

Merseyside Police said a 20-year-old man from Anfield had been arrested on suspicion of murder and a 19-yearold woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

Mr Cook died from a single stab wound to the heart.