In the mind of Thomas Cashman, Joseph Nee was supposed to die on the night of August 22 last year.
Before things went so horrifically wrong and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel ended up in the firing line instead, Cashman’s grim mission was so very nearly completed successfully. As he stood over Nee, who was begging “please lad, don’t”, his 9mm Glock self-loading pistol seemingly jammed, giving the wounded 35-year-old chance to scramble to his feet and flee.
What is now clear is that Cashman was not the first man to have the same idea.
