POLICE found £6,000 stashed behind a wardrobe when they raided the home of a man suspected of selling amphetamine on the streets of East Lancashire, a jury was told.

Burnley Crown Court heard how market trader and car dealer Glen Liversidge, 44, disputed the find was a lot of money.

He told officers it was from his business dealings and a policy which had matured. Liversidge said he had a bank account which he used for paying bills.

Liversidge was discovered with a quantity of drugs and £1,000 on him when he was arrested a few weeks later on a Burnley street in October last year. He was alleged to have received two packages from David Hancox, 39, his co-defendant and the man the prosecution say is his co-dealer in the plot.

Liversidge, of Wren Street, his sister's long term boyfriend Hancox, 39, of St Cuthbert Street, both Burnley, and Victoria White, 35, his then girlfriend, of Castercliff Bank, Colne, all plead not guilty to conspiring to supply amphetamine between January 2001 and February 2003.

The court was told Liversidge, then living at Birtwistle Court, Barnoldswick, with his two sons, claimed he did not deal in drugs. In interview, he said he sold DVDs and CDs, used several mobile phones and sold them on his market stall.

He was questioned again more than three weeks later after he and Hancox were arrested on Melville Street, Burnley.

Liversidge told police he had bought some amphetamine that morning from a couple in Burnley and claimed he usually bought half an ounce a week. That day he had got an ounce for £120 but refused to name the couple.

He claimed he had done nothing illegal with him, Hancox was not his "brother-in-law," and he had not bought drugs from him.

(Proceeding)