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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jonathan Humphries & Adam Everett

'Many will think this is very lenient' - Every word judge told Paul Russell as he is 'shown mercy'

Dad-of-two Paul Russell today became the second man sent to jailed in connection with one of the most horrific crimes in Merseyside's history.

But there are worlds of difference between the 41-year-old and Thomas Cashman, the man who actually shot nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel dead on August 22 last year.

That night 34-year-old gangland thug Cashman lay in wait for rival drug dealer Joseph Nee on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, armed with two guns. He shot Nee three times but when his Glock 9mm pistol "malfunctioned", he chased the wounded Nee down the road and towards the home of Olivia's mum, Cheryl Korbel, who had stepped outside to see what was going on.

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