Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Intended target shouted 'please don't' - court

The intended people of the shooting which killed Olivia Pratt-Korbel shouted "please don't" arsenic his person ran "for his life", a tribunal has heard.

Thomas Cashman, 34, is accused of carrying retired the onslaught successful Dovecot, Liverpool, which killed the nine-year-old, injured her parent Cheryl Korbel, 46, and Joseph Nee, 36.

A constabulary interrogation with a man, who was with Mr Nee erstwhile the gunman opened fire, was shown to the jury.

Mr Cashman denies being the gunman.

Manchester Crown Court heard however the gunman fired done the beforehand doorway of the Korbel household location conscionable aft 22:00 BST connected 22 August past year.

He had been chasing Mr Nee, who is said to person been the intended target, done the street, the proceedings heard.

The slug deed Ms Korbel successful the manus and fatally wounded Olivia successful the chest.

In a constabulary interview, Paul Abraham, 41, said that helium and Mr Nee had near a friend's location that evening erstwhile helium heard large bangs.

He said: "Both of america ran. One indispensable person got Joey.

"He fell over. I don't adjacent cognize erstwhile helium got shot, helium conscionable fell.

"As helium rolled implicit I conscionable fundamentally jumped implicit him and went done a gate."

Mr Abraham said helium saw Mr Nee proceed moving up the street, and the attacker, with 2 hands connected what helium thought was a gun, walking up the road.

He said: "As I was going up the introduction [Mr Nee] was saying 'please don't', I heard him shouting 'please, don't'."

Mr Abraham said helium thought helium heard 2 further bangs arsenic helium jumped implicit fences of backmost gardens to get away.

He said: "I was conscionable moving for my beingness basically."

When Mr Abraham was initially asked whose location they had been astatine earlier that evening, helium did not archer police.

He said: "It's not down to maine this, I don't privation to get myself into occupation either."

The tribunal heard Mr Nee and Mr Abraham had been watching a shot lucifer betwixt Manchester United and Liverpool astatine the location of person Timothy Naylor connected Finch Lane.

In a statement, Mr Naylor said: "I had nary thought Joey was astatine risk, if I had thought Joey was nether menace oregon his beingness was astatine hazard I'd ne'er ever person him adjacent my house."

He said helium heard bangs and a antheral screaming soon aft Mr Nee and Mr Abraham near the house.

Mr Naylor said: "I rang Paul aft proceeding the bangs.

"Paul was hysterical, sobbing connected the telephone and helium couldn't get his words out.

"I knew thing atrocious indispensable person happened to him oregon Joey."

Mr Naylor said helium had known Mr Nee since they were children and they had been playing play and socialising unneurotic "since helium got retired of jailhouse past time".

Mr Cashman, of Grenadier Drive, West Derby, Liverpool, denies the execution of Olivia, the attempted execution of Mr Nee, wounding with intent to bash grievous bodily harm to Olivia's mother, and 2 counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.