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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Jonathan Humphries & Adam Everett

Thomas Cashman claims he was 'smoking spliff and counting £10,000 cash' when Olivia shot

Thomas Cashman has told a jury that he was smoking a spliff and counting £10,000 in cash at a friend's house when Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot dead.

The 34-year-old, of Grenadier Drive in West Derby, is currently standing trial accused of murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel. The schoolgirl was shot dead in her own home on Kingsheath Avenue in Dovecot on the evening of August 22 last year.

Cashman continued to give evidence from the witness box for a second day today, Wednesday. He told the court that he was picked up by a man called Craig Byrne on Aspes Road shortly after 9pm on the day in question, after which they dropped bin bags of rubbish at a facility at Yewtree Cemetery.

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