A man has been jailed for 22 months for helping convicted murderer Thomas Cashman after he fatally shot nine-year-old Olivia Pratt Korbel.
11.04.2023 - 05:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The man who killed Olivia Pratt-Korbel in a deadly shooting in Liverpool was locked for a minimum term of 42 years last week.
He is just one of a number of offenders locked up in recent years who will spend decades behind bars for their crimes.
Some criminals have even been handed a whole-life order, meaning they will never be eligible for parole.
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Thomas Cashman will spend decades behind bars for the murder of Liverpool schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel after he was handed a life sentence at Manchester Crown Court last week.
The 34-year-old shot at nine-year-old Olivia and her mother as he chased convicted drug dealer Joseph Nee into their home in the Dovecot area of Liverpool on August 22 last year. After a 19-day trial, Cashman was found guilty of murder, wounding with intent, attempted murder and two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Mrs Justice Yip said Cashman's attack of Nee was an 'attempted, planned execution attempt', which left a child dead and her mother, 46-year-old Cheryl Korbel, injured. She handed Cashman a life sentence with a minimum of 42 years in prison after he refused to appear in the dock.
The court previously heard that Cashman was a “high-level” cannabis dealer who operated in the area. He had been “scoping out” Nee, the intended target, on the day of the shooting and lay in wait for him, armed with two guns, as he watched a football match at the house of a friend.
Footage played to the jury showed the gunman, wearing tracksuit bottoms which
A man has been jailed for 22 months for helping convicted murderer Thomas Cashman after he fatally shot nine-year-old Olivia Pratt Korbel.
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