The brother of a nine-year-old woman shot lifeless in her Liverpool house has described the second the gunman tried to drive his approach into the home.
Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed on 22 August 2022 after a gunman chased convicted burglar Joseph Nee to the door of their property in Dovecot.
Thomas Cashman, 34, is alleged to be the gunman accountable and is at the moment on trial at Manchester Crown Court.
A police video interview of Ryan Korbel was performed to the court docket on Friday by which he stated he heard three loud bangs.
He stated: “The next thing I heard was footsteps across the landing. It was Olivia, she was running downstairs screaming: ‘Mum, I’m scared’.”
A police officer requested Mr Korbel if he knew what Olivia was fearful of.
He stated: “No, she literally said ‘I’m scared mummy, I’m scared’.
“Then I heard her footsteps.
“Downstairs she said it another two times ‘I’m scared, I’m scared’ and then everything else just kicked off.”
Mr Korbel stated he went to the touchdown and noticed Olivia 4 or 5 steps up from the underside of the staircase, a person mendacity on the ground and his mom, Cheryl Korbel, “wrestling” with the door.
He stated: “My mum and the fella, who I believe was Joseph Nee, who I’m quite happy to name, then got the door shut.
“The doorways burst again open however my mum’s behind it.
“An arm’s come round the door with a black handgun and another shot’s gone off, it could be two, I can’t remember.
“Olivia was in hysterics, my mum was in hysterics, my 18-year-old sister was in hysterics, all of us have been.”
Asked to describe the arm he saw appear around the door, Mr Korbel said: “All I seen was an arm, a hand and a gun.”
He told police he “did not know my sister had been hit at this level” and followed Nee outside who was picked up by two men in an SUV.
Mr Korbel went back inside the family home. “My mum put Liv in my arms and informed me to maintain strain on her chest.
“I didn’t now why until I lifted her pyjama top up and seen a hole.”
He stated a neighbour got here in and gave CPR to Olivia.
“Her lips had gone blue, she wasn’t even bleeding out the gunshot wound,” he stated.
“I knew it was over.”
Mr Korbel stated Nee was injured however he didn’t suppose he had been shot whereas inside the home.
He stated: “He cowered behind the door like a s***house.”
Cashman denies the homicide of Olivia, the tried homicide of Nee, wounding with intent to do grievous bodily hurt to Olivia’s mom, and two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to hazard life.
The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”