Accused’s mother says next morning she went out looking for Alesha, having learned she was missing. Came across Alesha’s Dad and his girlfriend Toni. Says she gave Toni a cuddle and said she was everything was going to be fine
Accused’s mother said she checked house cctv - she was looking to see if there was a little girl wandering past her area
Accused’s mother said on the cctv she saw her son come back into the house around about
3 O’clock in the morning
Accused’s mother says she was surprised to see him out of the property. Went further back on the cctv and saw him leave the house
Accused’s mother says he came back to the house, had a shower, left all his clothes “at his backside” and left the house again. At that point he was in only shorts. Looked as if he was carrying a T-shirt, jumped over the wall and disappeared for
7 mins. Didn’t have shoes on
Accused’s mother says she wondered why he’d been out. She asked him in the afternoon after she’d seen the cctv. Says his reaction was ‘I don’t know I think I might have been looking for my phone’
Accused’s mother told court she waited for her friend to come home from work. Friend said you’d better call police and then the mother did. Said they were trying to explain to accused son whoever did this would have left DNA.
Said son didn’t understand what DNA was
Cctv then later in court shows accused leaving house at
1.54 am in black trousers, jogging bottoms and black fleece. Then
3.35am walking towards property, jumps over wall and enters. Mother asked in court if anything different about clothing, she says not got dark fleece on
Cctv at
3.44 on same morning, 2 July 2018, shows light come on in bathroom. At
3.45am person, who mother agrees is the accused, is seen leaving only wearing shorts
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