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Prison call from defendant Natasha Akhtar played to jury - 'I was part of it'
Five days after she was arrested on suspicion of murder, defendant Natasha Akhtar made a phone call to a woman from the prison she was in. The police received a recording of that call as part of their investigation.In the call, which was very difficult to understand (the jury were handed transcripts) Akhtar was heard telling the woman "I was part of it" and also said: "Raees said he's going to take the whole blame for it. He'll have to, regardless, as he was driving".
She told the woman she wasn't driving the car but she added: "But there's a charge of assisting a murder. I'll get a few years, I know that".
She went on to say "we made up a story" about driving to Nottingham and added: "Innocent until proven guilty."
And that's all from the prosecution
The jury is shown the tools recovered from the cars, including the wheel brace Mohammed Patel had been given to put in his trousers, and the prosecutor Collingwood Thompson KC annouces that the case for the prosecution is now concluded.Next will be Ansreen Bukhari's defence and then each of the other seven will have their turn, with Mr Thompson getting a chance to sum out the Crown's case towards the end of the trial.
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Day 13 court updates from murder trial of TikTok's Mahek Bukhari
The prosecution case against the eight defendants is continuing