BREAKING: Thomas Cashman, the gunman who shot and killed nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, has been sentenced to life in prison.
The gunman who shot and killed nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel as she called out to her mum in her own home has been sentenced to life in prison.
The defendant’s lawyer explained his client believed the matter had become a ‘circus’ after he said he heard the Crown Prosecution Service singing the Queen song We Are The Champions following his conviction. Ms Korbel had opened the door to check what the noise was – but Nee, who had already been shot in the midriff, took the opportunity to try and barge in.John Francis Pratt, Olivia’s dad, also attended the sentencing today Armed police stoond guard as a prison van arrived at at Manchester Crown Court ahead of Cashman’s sentencing
Meanwhile, Olivia was taken to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and rushed straight to the resuscitation room, but was declared dead at 11.15pm. A father-of-two, he grew up in a terraced council house 15 minutes from Olivia’s home, left school around 13 or 14 and spent time working in fairgrounds in Wales before moving back to Liverpool.
Without batting an eyelid, he told jurors: ‘I said if you don’t sort it I’ll take your graft and I’ll take your car.’Cashman replied: ‘If he didn’t give it me, well, he would have ended up getting a punch or something.’ One man claiming to be a former customer told the Liverpool Echo Cashman was ‘feared’ as a ‘known hitman in the area’, running with a gang who ‘ran the streets’ of Dovecot.
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