A businessman accused of ordering his brother’s murder has denied lying to the police about a contraband cigarette deal.

A trial at the High Court in Edinburgh has heard allegations that millionaire landlord Toby Siddique, 38, was lured to his death with an offer of cut-price contraband cigarettes.

The morning after the fatal shooting at a flat in Glenrothes, Fife, brother Mo Siddique, 42, spoke to police investigating the killing but said nothing about the cigarette deal.

Giving evidence on Friday, Mo denied a suggestion from defence QC Donald Findlay that he had deliberately decided to keep back that detail. He said he had not believed the deal would actually go ahead.

The trial has heard Bulgarian bouncer Deyan Nikolov, 27, a friend and employee of Mo was to supply to the cigarettes. Former security man David Dalgleish, 44, was the middle-man and Toby was to buy 200 cartons.

Instead, Toby was shot dead on October 24, 2010 and Mr Dalgleish was left with a wound on the back of his head.

In court Mr Dalgleish identified another Bulgarian, Tencho Andonov, 28, as the gunman.

Mo Siddique Nikolov and Andonov all deny a charge of murdering Toby Siddique, who had been engaged in a long running business dispute with his brother. Mo.Andonov also denies attempting to murder Mr Dalgleish.

During his evidence, Mo Siddique also admitted the cash he had been promised by his brother to buy out his share in multi-million pound Moncrieff Properties would not have been reported to the tax man.

Mo Siddique said if the money had come from his brother it would have been "dodgy".

The trial has also heard how married father-of-four Mo Siddique was carrying on an affair with another woman and sending flirty texts to a third - his son's ex-girlfriend.

Mr Findlay, defending Nikolov, suggested that Mo Siddique was a philanderer, a fornicator and a tax cheat.

Mo replied: "That doesn't make you a murderer, does it?"

He is expected to continue giving evidence when the long-running trial continues on Monday.