'How could he continue to shoot after hearing her terrified screams?'

The Independent's Morning Headlines email [The Independent]( April 04, 2023 [View online](   [Morning Headlines]( 1 / [Drug-dealing gunman jailed for at least 42 years for murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel]( Drug-dealing gunman jailed for at least 42 years for murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel Olivia Pratt-Korbel's killer was sentenced to life with a minimum of 42 years in prison on Monday as her anguished mother asked how he carried on shooting despite his nine-year-old victim’s screams. Thomas Cashman may die behind bars after being found guilty of shooting the girl inside her home during a botched gangland assassination. The 34-year-old gunman refused to appear in the dock at Manchester Crown Court to be sentenced, but Cheryl Korbel brought a teddy made from her daughter’s pyjamas into the witness box as she described how Cashman had “left the biggest hole in our lives”. Ms Korbel said she could not understand how Cashman kept shooting “after hearing the terrified screams and utter devastation he had caused”. Outside court, she expressed relief that “justice has prevailed” and that her family could “draw a line under seven months of agonising torment”, but she said they had begun their own life sentence “of having to spend the rest of our lives without Olivia”, who she described as “my little love, my shadow”. 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