The man accused of shooting Olivia Pratt-Korbel while chasing another man told a jury he was "friends" with the "intended target" Joseph Nee.
Dad-of-two Thomas Cashman, 34, spoke in court for the first time today as the defence started its case, telling the jury he had even visited Mr Nee's mum's house the day before the shooting, on August 22 last year. Cashman accepted he was a "high level" cannabis dealer selling to "people he knew" in the local area.
Olivia, nine, died when a gunman fired a shot which passed through the front door of her family home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, then hit her mum, Cheryl Korbel, in the hand before striking her in the chest. The gunman had initially opened fire on Mr Nee as he walked on the street outside with another man, Paul Abraham.
