Thomas Cashman has lost a bid to challenge his conviction(Image: PA)

Olivia Pratt-Korbel gunman Thomas Cashman loses bid to overturn murder conviction

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by · The Mirror

The gunman who murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has lost a bid to challenge his conviction at the Court of Appeal.

Olivia died after a bullet fired by Thomas Cashman hit her as he chased a drug dealer who had tried to run into her home in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, in August 2022. Cashman was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 42 years in April 2023, with the Court of Appeal throwing out a bid to challenge his sentence last November.

On Wednesday, barristers for Cashman, now 36, told the same court that it should order investigations into claims that jurors were provided with panic alarms by police and allegations that evidence was given to them during their deliberations which had not been presented at trial. But three senior judges dismissed the appeal bid, with Lord Justice Holroyde stating that full reasons for their decision would follow at a later date.

Olivia was tragically shot and killed( Image: Liverpool Echo)
Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot by Thomas Cashman( Image: PA)

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