The secret retail park meeting with police where Thomas Cashman was named as Olivia's killer
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.
Cashman's trial at Manchester Crown Square Crown Court was told that he had "garden hopped" to Russell's partner's home in the aftermath of the incident. She cannot be named for legal reasons, but reported that she had phoned her boyfriend after being woken by the killer at her bedside. Dad-of-two Cashman was given a navy blue pair of his co-defendant's Under Armour tracksuit bottoms during his pitstop at the woman's home. These were later discovered in a cardboard box at his sister's home on Mab Lane, and when tested were found to contain his DNA and two particles of gunpower residue on the outer surface of the right leg.
His account from the witness box was that he had received the incriminating clothing at an earlier date, following a sexual encounter with the woman. This came after she had been one of the first people on the scene of another shooting, in which a man was injured. Olivia's mum Cheryl Korbel then tussled with Nee in an attempt to keep her front door shut and to keep him out of the property, but the assailant fired another shot with a second gun - a revolver - at this point. This bullet passed through the door and travelled through the mother's hand before striking the youngster in the chest.
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