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| Thomas Cashman guilty of Olivia Pratt-Korbel shooting murder | Thomas Cashman guilty of Olivia Pratt-Korbel shooting murder |
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| The bullet which killed Olivia was fired through the front door | |
| A man has been found guilty of murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot dead in her Liverpool home. | A man has been found guilty of murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot dead in her Liverpool home. |
| Thomas Cashman had denied being the gunman who shot Olivia and injured her mother Cheryl Korbel after chasing a man into their home on 22 August. | |
| The 34-year-old was also found guilty of wounding Ms Korbel, the attempted murder of Joseph Nee and possession of firearms. | |
| He will be sentenced on Monday. | He will be sentenced on Monday. |
| Thomas Cashman had denied being the gunman who shot Olivia | |
| Ms Korbel, wearing a pink cardigan and holding a teddy bear, sat with her children Chloe and Ryan in the court. | |
| There were gasps and tears from Olivia's family as the verdicts were returned. | |
| During the trial at Manchester Crown Court, which lasted more than three weeks, the jury heard 36-year-old Nee, who has a number of previous convictions, was the intended target of the attack. | |
| He was injured before he ran towards the house after three shots were fired from a self-loading pistol in the street on Kingsheath Avenue in Dovecot. | |
| Police release footage of the arrest of Thomas Cashman | |
| Police release footage of the arrest of Thomas Cashman | |
| Cashman fired a further two shots from a revolver into the Korbel family home, one which killed Olivia and the other which became lodged in the door. | |
| He then fled the scene, running across back gardens. | |
| The court heard Nee and his family "had their enemies" and it was not the first time he had been targeted in a shooting. | |
| At Manchester Crown Court | |
| Judith Moritz, BBC North of England Correspondent | |
| There were gasps and sobs from Olivia's family when the guilty verdict was announced. | |
| Thomas Cashman was seen to wipe away tears as he was convicted. His family were heard shouting 'we'll appeal it'. | |
| Olivia's murder made national headlines. A child gunned down inside her own home, where she should have been safest. | |
| The case is considered a real low. But it's not a new low for Liverpool. | |
| Eerily, exactly 15 years to the very day, 11-year-old Rhys Jones was fatally shot by a stray bullet. | |
| Olivia's murder carried the sense of history repeating itself. | |
| Maybe that's why it provoked such a strong reaction within the local community. | |
| Detectives say that information flowed into their incident room in a volume they haven't experienced before. | |
| And even some of those who might have been expected to put up a wall of silence spoke out. | |
| Criminals talked about "a line having been crossed". | |
| Cashman, a father-of-two, said around the time of the shooting he had been at a friend's house where he counted £10,000 in cash and smoked a spliff. | |
| But a woman who had a fling with Cashman told the jury he came to her house after the shooting, where he changed his clothes and she heard him say he had "done Joey". | |
| Cashman told the court she was a "woman scorned" and accused her of lying because she wanted to "ruin" his life. | |
| 'Brave' ex-partner helped convict Olivia's killer | |
| CCTV shows shooting of Cashman's intended target | |
| Live: Olivia's family in tears as gunman found guilty | |
| Det Supt Mark Baker, the senior investigating officer in the case, said Cashman's actions were "abhorrent". | |
| He said: "When he found out that he had shot an innocent young girl, he should have had the courage to stand up and come forward. | |
| "Instead, he chose to lie low despite the fact that he was a dad himself. | |
| "He is not worthy of walking the streets of Merseyside, and neither are those who think they can bring fear or intimidation to our communities through the use of firearms." | |
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