The killer of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has been jailed for a minimum term of 42 years. Thomas Cashman, 34, refused to appear in the dock to be sentenced to life imprisonment at Manchester Crown Court on Monday (April 3).
A jury found him guilty last week of murdering the schoolgirl in her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on August 22 last year. Olivia's mother Cheryl Korbel, 46, took a teddy made from her daughter's pyjamas into the witness box with her as she told the court: "I cannot get my head around how Cashman continued to shoot after hearing the terrified screams and utter devastation he had caused.
"He doesn’t care. His actions have left the biggest hole in our lives. That man set out to do a job and he didn't care about anyone else or who got in the way. He certainly couldn't own it either."
