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Jury asked for witness statement to be read out
The judge has been called back in to re-read the statment of Sam Alford at the request of the jury..
He was the man who lived in a house just next to Oak Road playing fields who heard a woman screaming and then saw a man hurrying away from the park.
Justice Lambert told the jury: “He [Sam Alford} says he recalled speaking to police about screams he had heard and the individual he had seen afterwards.
"The events were fresh when he gave his first statement and he was referring to something he heard on February 1, 2019.
"He woke up looked at his phone and said it was about a minute after he looked at his phone he heard a scream. He looked at his phone and it was 12.14am.
"His partner had texted him so he checked the text on his phone and he didn’t know what caused him to wake up. He said when he was awake a minute or two when he heard the screams.
"He said the screams were far away but loud enough to reach his window, around 150 metres away.
"He said ‘in the direction north from my bedroom.’ He said there was a track and a bit of woodland and the river running around the back.
"He was asked some questions about the screams and said the first two were intermittent with 30 seconds or ones minute between and wondered what it was.
"It was the second that got him thinking they had a pattern. He talked about the pattern of life living there teenagers drinking in the park and girls screaming behaviour he intended to ignore.
"He heard the screams again and couldn’t see anything. He said they were human from a woman and said they were enough to think ‘what could they be'.
He said 'they portrayed to me desperation and continued for three to five minutes, three to seven, I can only give you an estimation probably four to seven minutes. I went to the toilet and came back and looked out the window and they had stopped'.
He knelt on his bed and looked out the window. He said it was more he couldn’t see and after around three to five minutes he saw a man walking along the path. It was a man walking along in a manner he described as assertive, not looking behind and knowing where he wanted to go.
"He said he was heading straight forward before he left his vision. He was asked about a police statement he gave in February 4 and said he told the truth at the time.
"He said he had never seen the man running off. He described him as moving as if he wanted to get out of there.
"He had said he wanted to get out of the park and was walking with urgency and moving with a purpose to get off the park. As for the clothing being worn by the man he described joggers or jeans and some sort of hooded jacket.”
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