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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Jonathan Humphries & Sophie Halle-Richards

Cowardly child killer Thomas Cashman learns prison fate after trying to get his sentence reduced

Cowardly child killer Thomas Cashman has been denied the chance to appeal his jail sentence - as his victim's fuming mother branded the murderer 'a cheek.'

Cashman, 34, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 42 years for the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in a botched gangland assassination attempt in Liverpool.

Olivia, a completely innocent bystander, died when the thug fired a bullet through the front door of her home in Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, on August 22 last year.

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