In lieu of Alyce....From same source iirc..Kentlive.
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Next door neighbour says he 'was not woken' by noise on October 9
Another resident, Adrian Sharman, who is the next door neighbour, has been called to give evidence who also lives in Bazes Shaw.
When questioned by the prosecution Alison Morgan, QC, he said he was aware that Ben Lacomba drove a red taxi and that Sarah Wellgreen had her own car.
He said Lacomba “most of the time parked in car park one, or opposite number 22.”
Reciting the last time he spoke to Sarah, Mr Sharman said he saw Sarah fitting a dashcam to her car back in September 2018.
He told her about a dashcam and that it might save her money on her car insurance.
When asked what he said at the time, Mr Sharman told the court:
“I said, hello sarah how are you?
“[She was] a very cheerful, very happy sort of person. Loves her kids.”
Mr Sharman usually gets in from work at around 5.30pm to 6pm, and on October 9 he went into car park one.
When he parked up, he said he did not see Lacomba’s red taxi there.
The next morning he got up at 4am, and left the house at 5am and said the taxi was not in car park one at that time.
When asked if there were any empty gaps in car park one, he replied: “Yes, there was.”
The defence, Rebecca Trowler QC, started asking Mr Sharman whether, throughout August and September he had noticed Lacomba had started to also “sometimes” park in car park two.
He replied: “I didn’t notice that.”
Rebecca Trowler said: “In your witness statement you explained that on occasions you can hear noise coming through the wall from 22.
“You gave an example of children playing, shouting, in the weekday evenings and on weekends.
“And you also told the police would sometime hear the front door of number 22 shutting and did that happen, did you hear that sometimes at night when you were asleep?”
He replied “yes”.
The defence continued to ask about the noise of 22’s door shutting, which he agreed would be loud enough to wake him up.
He confirmed he was not woken by any noise coming from 22 on October 9 and had not heard any prior arguments coming from their house since he moved next door in 2017.