The drug dealer who shot dead nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has asked to appeal against his 42-year minimum jail term.
Thomas Cashman, 35, was jailed for life for shooting Olivia dead at her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August 2022.
His written application for permission to challenge his minimum jail term was rejected by a judge, without a hearing, earlier this year.
A lawyer representing him renewed that application at a Court of Appeal hearing in London on Wednesday.
Three appeal judges – Dame Victoria Sharp, Mrs Justice McGowan and Mr Justice Chamberlain – were listed to oversee the Court of Appeal hearing in London.
Cashman did not appear at the hearing.
Cashman, from West Derby in Liverpool, was chasing convicted drug dealer Joseph Nee before Olivia was shot dead.
Nee ran into the girl’s home in a bid to escape when Cashman opened fire, hitting Olivia’s mother Cheryl Korbel in the wrist as she tried to keep the door shut on Nee, with the same bullet killing her daughter.
