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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Jonathan Humphries

"Please lad, don't": The gangland 'rat' who made enemies everywhere he went - with an innocent nine-year-old girl paying the ultimate price instead

Thomas Cashman planned to kill Joseph Nee on the night of August 22 last year. That was before things went so horrifically wrong and nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel ended up in the firing line instead.

But as he stood over Nee, who was begging 'please lad, don't', Cashman's 9mm Glock self-loading pistol seemingly jammed, giving the wounded 35-year-old chance to scramble to his feet and flee, the Echo reports. But what is now clear is that Cashman was not the first man to have the same idea.

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