Two days after the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, Paul Russell secretly met with police on a retail park and named Thomas Cashman as her killer. Russell, 41 was today jailed for 22 months after admitting assisting an offender in relation to the fatal shooting of the schoolgirl inside her own home in Liverpool on August 22 last year.
He disposed of clothing worn by the child killer and drove him back to his van in the aftermath of the incident. Tom Schofield, defending, told Liverpool Crown Court during the hearing that his client had not been aware of the full extent of Cashman's crimes on the night in question.
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