Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel screamed ‘Mum, I’m scared’ just before being shot dead, jury told
Olivia Pratt-Korbel screamed “Mum, I’m scared!” seconds before she was shot dead in her own home, a jury has heard.
“She turned round and saw her daughter, Olivia, at the bottom of the stairs – she referred to her as ‘the baby’, as we do in this area. She said ‘I remember when I turned round and realised the baby was right behind me … because she’d come … obviously come down the stairs ’cause she’d heard. Ms Korbel was saying to her stricken daughter “Stay with me, baby” as Nee slumped on the hallway floor. Cashman tried to shoulder-charge the door open and then his arm came around the door, holding a black handgun, before another shot rang out, the bullet splintering the door frame.
Pc Metcalf could feel a faint heartbeat and Olivia’s eyes were open but her lips were blue and she was unresponsive. On arrival at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, the youngster was taken straight to the resuscitation room but was declared dead at 11.15pm. Nee stumbled but, as Cashman stood over him, his gun jammed and the victim ran to Olivia’s house to escape. Cashman followed, the jury heard, “relentless” in his pursuit, swapping his misfiring gun for a second weapon, the revolver, when he fired and hit Olivia.
“Thomas Cashman’s actions resulted in Joseph Nee being injured, Cheryl Korbel being injured and, most tragically of all in this case, Olivia Pratt-Korbel being killed.”
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