Child killer Thomas Cashman was quizzed by police over 'body in the snow' murder
31.03.2023 - 21:05
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The killer of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was quizzed by police over a murder in 2013, it can now be revealed. Thomas Cashman was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Karl Bradley in Liverpool.
Mr Bradley's body was found lying in the snow in the back garden of a house in the West Derby area of the city, the Liverpool Echo reports. Mr Bradley, the brother of notorious Liverpool gangland thug Kirk Bradley, had been shot four times the previous evening, and had been left alone in the cold all night.
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Merseyside Police had actually been called to the area at around 11pm the previous night when a stray bullet hit the window frame of a different house on Penshaw Close, where a family with young children had been at home. However, Mr Bradley's body was not discovered at that time and it did not appear to police as if the shooting had left any injuries.
No-one has ever been charged with Mr Bradley’s murder, although there have been a number of arrests. One of those arrested, was Thomas Cashman, the Echo reports.
The now 34-year-old is awaiting his mandatory life sentence for the murder of nine-year-old Olivia, the attempted murder of Joseph Nee and wounding Olivia’s mum, Cheryl Korbel, with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, on August 22 last year.
Cashman, who lived on The Point estate, not far away from the scene of Mr Bradley’s murder, has been described as a “hitman” by locals, and despite the catastrophic failure of his attempt to execute Nee on August 22 last year, he had put significant planning into the twisted mission, scoping out Nee during the day