Gunman who murdered Olivia Pratt-Korbell, 9, loses bid to challenge conviction

Thomas Cashman has mislaid his entreaty (Image: PA)

The gunman who murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has mislaid a bid to situation his condemnation astatine the Court of Appeal.

Olivia died aft a slug fired by Thomas Cashman deed her arsenic helium chased a cause trader who had tried to tally into her location successful Knotty Ash, Liverpool, successful August 2022.

Cashman was sentenced to beingness with a minimum word of 42 years successful April 2023, with the Court of Appeal throwing retired a bid to situation his condemnation past November.

On Wednesday, barristers for Cashman, present 36, told the aforesaid tribunal that it should bid investigations into claims that jurors were provided with panic alarms by constabulary and allegations that grounds was fixed to them during their deliberations which had not been presented astatine trial.

But 3 elder judges dismissed the entreaty bid, with Lord Justice Holroyde stating that afloat reasons for their determination would travel astatine a aboriginal date.

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