Thomas Cashman has told a jury that he was a "high level" drug dealer who would earn up to £5,000 per week, money he would spend on cars and holidays.
The 34-year-old, of Grenadier Drive in West Derby, is currently standing trial accused of murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel. The schoolgirl was shot dead in her own home on Kingsheath Avenue in Dovecot on the evening of August 22 last year.
Cashman was called to give evidence from the witness box as the defence case was opened on Tuesday afternoon. Wearing a knitted blue jumper over a white shirt and flanked by three security guards, he described to jurors how he had started smoking cannabis at around 16 while working on a funfair in Wales and began selling the class B drug aged 18.
