Holding a patchwork teddy bear made from her daughter’s pyjamas, the mother of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel movingly described the heartbreak caused by losing her “beautiful, sassy, chatty girl who never ran out of energy”.
Cheryl Korbel spoke in court minutes before a judge on Monday jailed Thomas Cashman, her daughter’s killer, for a minimum of 42 years.