Jurors have been told they will bear a "heavy responsibility" when they are sent to deliberate on the fate of Thomas Cashman tomorrow.
Closing arguments have been delivered and the trial judge has started summing up the evidence at Manchester Crown Court, where the 34-year-old is into the fourth week of his trial for the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel. Olivia, nine, died on August 22 last year when a gunman fired a bullet through the front door of her family home in Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, injuring her mum, Cheryl Korbel, in the wrist and striking her in the chest.
The gunman had been chasing 36-year-old convicted drug dealer and burglar Joseph Nee, who barged into the Korbel house while fleeing for his life. Cashman, of Grenadier Drive, West Derby, denies any involvement in Olivia's murder or any of the shooting.
