The mother of murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has joined the chorus of voices pushing for a change in the law that would force all criminals to attend their sentencing, after Thomas Cashman sat in his cell while his sentence was read.
Cashman, 34, refused to appear in the dock when he was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Monday after a jury found him guilty of murdering the schoolgirl in her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on August 22 last year.
