Paul Russell has been jailed for helping Thomas Cashman in his attempts to cover up the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel.
The 41-year-old disposed of clothing worn by the child killer and drove him back to his van following the fatal shooting of the nine-year-old girl inside her own home on Kingsheath Avenue in Dovecot on the evening of August 22 last year. He pleaded guilty to assisting an offender in October, with the gunman having been unanimously convicted of murdering the schoolgirl by a jury last month.
Russell, of Snowberry Road, was today imprisoned for 22 months at Liverpool Crown Court. Appearing via video link to an undisclosed prison, he showed no reaction as the sentence was passed - while Olivia's dad John Pratt said "joke" before leaving the courtroom.
