Thomas Cashman was jailed at Manchester Crown Court in April 2023.

Huyton Firm co-leader Vincent Coggins told his older brother Francis that killer Thomas Cashman "shouldn't know what we are doing" after he asked them for heroin. The conversation from seized EncroChat messages and obtained by the ECHO after the older Coggins brother was finally jailed this week shows how the gang bosses respected Cashman but were jumpy about too many people knowing their business.

The ECHO has previously reported how Cashman, whose stray bullets murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in August 2022, worked as a hitman and had close contact with the upper echelons of the Stockbridge Village-based Huyton Firm. He was also deployed by Vincent Coggins to track down CCTV footage after one of their st

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