Thomas Cashman is now the "most hated man in Britain" according to his own lawyer. The 34-year-old set out to kill a rival drug dealer on the night of August 22, 2022, but in his careless, murderous hunt, he shot blindly through the door of a family home and killed a scared nine-year-old girl who had heard noise and got out of bed to look for her mum.
He denied murder, denied responsibility for the harrowing crime, but was convicted by a jury at Manchester Crown Court giving little Olivia Pratt-Korbell's desperately grieving mother the justice she craved. Cashman can now be revealed to be far from the quietly-spoken family man who just sold a bit of cannabis, which he portrayed himself as during the trial.
At some points during his grilling at Manchester Crown Court he was so quiet and softly spoken that judge Justice Yip had to ask him to raise his voice, reports The Liverpool Echo. Yet he had a reputation for violence and links to other seriously violent crimes involving weapons. One man claimed Cashman had a reputation of being somewhat of a 'hitman'.
