A remorseless child killer starts a life sentence today for shooting dead a nine-year-old schoolgirl.
Thomas Cashman was unanimously found guilty of murdering Olivia Pratt-Korbel by a jury on Thursday March 30. She was shot dead in her own home on Kingsheath Avenue in Dovecot in one of the most horrific crimes in Merseyside's history.
Cashman, of Grenadier Drive in West Derby, was due to in court to be sentenced this afternoon, Monday April 3, but refused to appear in the dock. Professor John Cooper KC, defending, said his client was "concerned the matter was turning into a circus" and claimed he had heard representatives of the Crown Prosecution Service "loudly" singing 'We are the Champions' after the verdict was delivered.
