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A drug dealer who killed a nine-year-old girl was shielded from her family in the dock during his trial because they were “intimidating”, her mother has said.

Thomas Cashman, 34, was jailed for a minimum of 42 years for the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot in Dovecot, Liverpool, after Cashman chased another man into her home.

Olivia’s mother, Cheryl Korbel, has been campaigning for a change in the law to compel defendants to attend their sentencing hearings after Cashman failed to appear in court as he was jailed for life.

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00:00 That was our time to have our voice, the impact statements,
00:06 to the offender.
00:08 And he didn't turn up.
00:10 And your impact statement went right from the moment
00:13 you knew you were pregnant, didn't it?
00:15 Yeah.
00:16 And why was delivering your impact statement
00:20 so important to you?
00:22 Because I wanted him to understand the pain that he's
00:25 caused, the pain that we went through,
00:27 and the pain that we're still going through.
00:30 Why do you think he didn't want to?
00:34 Because he's a coward.
00:36 Right through the trial, there was a--
00:38 even when he was in the doctor, there was a blind dial,
00:41 constantly.
00:42 So he couldn't see you.
00:44 He couldn't see me or any of the family.
00:47 And was that explained to you as to why that was there?
00:51 Apparently, we got told that we were intimidating.

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