Man Charged With Murder Of Olivia Pratt-Korbel

[FatticusInch]

https://news.sky.com/story/man-charged-with-murder-of-nine-year-old-olivia-pratt-korbel-in-liverpool-12709496

[Peter Pedant]

we have to limit our selves to - oh has he?
The defence may well take a view of bias froo reporting

I note another man has been charged with 'assisting an offender' - depending on the facts proven, a slap on the wrists or a long sentence.

I strongly advise AGAINST googling the name - er John Smith or someone and then Liverpool. The address is given so a difft John Smith of Acacia Drive doesnt get a fire bomb frooda window.

and THAT John Smith may well be well known already to the police and courts ( or not as Mystic Meg comments).

I hope little Olivia gets justice - RIP

[davebro]

hanging's too good for some - what about life with hard labour.

[Peter Pedant]

for the man that did it
we dont know yet

if there is a man shielding him - his mum or someone - I wdnt like to be her, at present

[bobbinwales]

Maybe...but let's wait to see if thers a guilty verdict

[jourdain2]

Am I allowed to express the hope that he is found guilty and gets a long, long prison term with the insistence that he spends a lot of time employed in establishing play areas etc. for kids?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah for the guy that did it.

prejudicial reporting does get up and run
here is one from Oireland -
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/prejudicial-report-causes-collapse-of-manslaughter-trial-26006235.html

and it looks as tho the acquitted oirish man had knocked the crap out of the deceased on the banks of the Slaney

[jno]

now now bobbinwales, you know the Queen of Hearts' rule: “Sentence first — verdict afterwards.” If it was good enough for Alice in Wonderland...

[FatticusInch]

I’d imagine the Police are remaining tight-lipped as to whether the £200,000 reward helped move matters along.
Is it only paid out once a guilty verdict is established I wonder?
Or maybe the local OCG’s have kept schtum and it’s all down to forensics and feeling collars etc?

[jno]

not acquitted, PP, they're just going looking for another jury who don't read the Enniscorthy Echo

[Peter Pedant]

thx - jno
I note the date was 2005

[Peter Pedant]

the other cause celebre - little boy blue - Rhys Jones, the name was spray painted on a wall within 48 h
( but the 16 y o gunman did boast about it).

I thought the police put their foot in it by telling the scouser s they were blaggers in hiding the culprit ...

[wolf63]

PP
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/trio-cleared-over-mans-killing-25980469.html