Olivia Pratt-Korbel screamed “Mum, I’m scared!” seconds before she was shot dead in her own home, a jury has heard.
The nine-year-old was standing on the stairs behind her mother, Cheryl Korbel, 46, when she was hit in the chest by a bullet fired by alleged gunman Thomas Cashman, Manchester Crown Court was told. Seconds earlier, Olivia had been frightened out of bed and ran to her mother after hearing a commotion outside their home in Dovecot, Liverpool, as Cashman, 34, allegedly shot another man, Joseph Nee, at around 10pm on Monday August 22 last year.
Olivia’s mother had opened her front door to find out what was going on – when Nee, bleeding and injured, saw the light from her doorway and ran towards the house, trying to barge in to escape Cashman. Ms Korbel, “in a panic” and screaming at Nee banging on the door, tried to shut it on him, as Cashman pursued his target and fired again with a revolver.
