Thomas Cashman said "I've done Joey" in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, a court has heard.
The 34-year-old, of Grenadier Drive in West Derby, is currently standing trial charged with the nine-year-old's murder after she was shot dead inside her own home on Kingsheath Avenue in Dovecot. A bullet fired by a gunman who was allegedly "relentless pursuing" a man called Joseph Nee - described as "the real target" - travelled through the front door of the house, hit her mum Cheryl in the hand then struck the schoolgirl in the chest on the evening of August 22 last year.
A jury at Manchester Crown Square Crown Court was told during the prosecution's opening today, Tuesday, that Cashman continued to the address of a woman he had previously had a sexual relationship with following the shooting. She cannot be identified for legal reasons but David McLachlan KC, prosecuting, described how she later told police that she had "dozed off" at around 9pm that night before being woken by the defendant in her house.
