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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Remy Greasley

Our Liverpool: stop coward killers hiding from what they've done

Hello and welcome to Our Liverpool.

Today we're calling on the government to stop cowardly killers from hiding in their cells from the sentencings they deserve. Last week Thomas Cashman was sentenced in his absence to 42 years in jail for the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, refusing to emerge from the cell he was in to face the nine-year-old's family in court and hear the impact of his actions on them.

He robbed them of this vital part of the grieving process using a legal loophole that allows criminals to evade that crucial part of the legal process. The law must change to prevent this.

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