The defendant, who has admitted to being a “high level cannabis dealer” earning up to £250,000 a year, said he was with a friend, Craig Byrne, at around 9.15pm on the night of the shooting.
He told the court they went to Mr Byrne’s house where they counted about £10,000 in cash in his guest room.
He added: “We counted money and then went downstairs, I put a joint in the kitchen, went out in the backyard and just had a general chat with Craig.”
Mr Cashman said when he later went out into the front garden he could hear sirens and was told by someone there were “police everywhere”.
Mr Cashman also accused a key witness in the trial, who cannot be named for legal reasons, of “attaching him” and “wanting to ruin him”.
The witness claimed that after the shooting, Mr. Cashman went to her house where he changed and she heard him say that he “did Joey”.
Asked if he confessed at any point, Mr Cashman replied: “No I didn’t, she is trying to ruin my life. She is trying to ruin my life, firstly because I will not leave my partner for her. There are lots of reasons.”
He added: “I am being attached for the murder of a child that I did not commit.”
Mr Cashman also claims the woman’s boyfriend owed him a drug debt of £25,000 so she wanted him “out of the way”.
Questions about clothing
During cross-examination, Mr Cashman also denied that the tracksuit bottoms allegedly worn by the gunman, which he allegedly saw two days after the murder, were particularly distinctive, claiming: “Everyone in all of Liverpool is wearing them.”
He added: “If I committed such a serious crime as the murder of a child, would I be wearing the same pair of sweatpants two days later?”
Mr Cashman is charged with carrying out the attack that killed Olivia and injured her mother Cheryl Korbel, 46, as well as convicted burglar Nee, 34, who was said to have been the intended target “without doubt”.
Mr Cashman, from Liverpool, denies the murder of Olivia, the attempted murder of Nee, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm to Olivia’s mother, and two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. to take.
The process continues.