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Jury in Olivia Pratt-Korbel murder trial hears her mother's police interview

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The heartbroken mother of Olivia Pratt-Korbel said of the moments after her nine-year-old daughter was shot: 'I knew she had gone... then the police turned up and just picked her up and took her out of the house'.

Cheryl Korbel, 46, was injured in the shooting which killed her daughter Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Dovecot, Liverpool, after a gunman barged into the family home while chasing his intended victim, Joseph Nee.

Thomas Cashman, 34, is accused of opening fire at about 10pm on August 22 last year, hitting Olivia in the chest and her mother in the hand.