There was just one word as Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s courageous mother left Manchester crown court clutching a pink teddy bear on Thursday afternoon. “Ecstatic,” she said, smiling, possibly for the first time in weeks, after a jury returned guilty verdicts against her daughter’s killer.
Cheryl Korbel, 46, had attended every day of the harrowing four-week trial and was a beacon of dignity and resilience throughout, even when she crossed paths with the murderer’s family in the corridors.
