The star witness in the murder trial of Olivia Pratt-Korbel has been subject to scores of death threats and may face years in a witness protection programme.
Thomas Cashman, 34, is facing a life sentence for shooting nine-year-old Olivia in her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, last August as he hunted down drug dealer Joseph Nee.
Cashman was said to have been hired to kill Nee by a feared international drug trafficking cartel who suspected the latter of a jail plot to steal a consignment of their cocaine.