How would admissibility of the following be determined?
The defendant is charged with burglary, having been accused of breaking into a cafe. The cafe was locked but its lock was cut open.
'The prosecution seek to adduce a text message that the defendant sent to his friend. In the text, the defendant had written 'I need your bolt cutters. Are you free tonight?'
At first I thought this would come under hearsay, but hearsay does not concern something said by the defendant, as he/she can be cross-examined in court?