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Had we had it confirmed before that it was Jake who told police where Jayden was buried?
http://www.jackfmoxfordshire.co.uk/...dge-begins-summing-up-in-jayden-murder-trial/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jayden-parkinsons-killer-buried-body-3861716
(In the print version of one of the Reading papers it said it was via his solicitor when he and Ben first appeared in court, but I can't find an online link to that info.)
Yes, there's a reference to it here. I'm sure it was reported earlier though.
Yesterday [2 July], Detective Sergeant Mark Morton, from the Major Crime Team, was asked about the younger defendant, who told police where they could find the teenagers remains.
His defence barrister Martin Steen read out the transcript of an interview the 17-year-old had after he was charged, having initially answered no comment to all police questions.
Asked if he helped hide Jaydens body the suspect said: Yes, but I was unaware it was her body.
(Ben Blakeley) told me he had a dead dog and a dead cat. He sent me off as he put them in. And I came back and all I could see was mud and he was putting more mud in.
It seems a bit more plausible to me now that Jake might have believed the story about the dead pets. See this in your link from the Mirror:
He believed it was a dog and a cat Ben had killed which belonged to a former girlfriend.
And this:
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/ja...laced_girls_he_dated____in_fear_for_lives___/The Oxford Crown Court jury also heard that Blakeley is believed to have killed cats belonging to both Jayden and another girlfriend.
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Blakeley told her [Katie] he had stabbed her missing cat to upset her.
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Sharon Heath, project manager at the hostel, said Jayden had believed Blakeley had killed her cat as it went missing and he turned up at her home with the body.