Thomas Cashman will be an old man when he is eligible for release from prison.
The 34-year-old was today handed life imprisonment with a minimum term of 42 years for the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel. That means he will be 76 before he is even eligible to apply for parole, with no guarantee he will ever be freed.
Cashman was unanimously found guilty of murdering the nine-year-old schoolgirl by a jury on Thursday March 30. He refused to enter the dock to be sentenced this afternoon.
