There was no love lost for Paul Russell in the public gallery of Courtroom 51 at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday.
The family of Olivia Pratt-Korbel bristled in anger as barrister Tom Schofield outlined the unenviable and unusual situation his 41-year-old client had found himself in. Russell, of Snowberry Road in West Derby, is paying a heavy price for allowing himself to be pulled into the toxic orbit of murderous gangland thug Thomas Cashman.
Forever linked to one of the most horrific and upsetting crimes in Merseyside history, Russell is spending his days in an undisclosed prison under an assumed name after a number of threats.. He has been handed a threat to life notice by police, known as an Osman Warning, and will likely be unable to return to Merseyside for many years, if ever.
