GUILTY UK - Lucy McHugh, 13, murdered,, Southampton, 25 July 2018

[Tortoise]

I think the Daily Star has it wrong, so I'll not post the content.

BREAKING: Carer not guilty over sexual activity with murdered schoolgirl Lucy McHugh

 

[HayLouise]

Confused..

 

[Alyce]

Agree - very confusing.

Think you're right Tortoise, Daily Star seem to be the only ones claiming this charge was against Lucy - all others just saying a child.

 

[HayLouise]

They have to have it wrong.. The jury was told to 'return not guilty verdict on charge of sexual activity with child' .. That does not equate to SN being not guilty

 

[Alyce]

Just adding this in from the evidence yesterday of the - then - 14 yr old girl

gives a bit more info re the relationship with the *friend*


The woman said she had taken a taxi to an address in Dunkirk Road, near the Sports Centre. Nicholson said a friend of his lived there and he 'sometimes looked after him'.



Man accused of Lucy McHugh murder 'took another girl's virginity in same woods body was found' | Daily Mail Online

 

[Alyce]

10:56am

The court now hears about Nicholson's previous sexual encounters.
Mr Newton-Price asks about an intimate piercing of Nicholson's.
He said it was "no secret" that he had the piercing and he had posted about it on Facebook.

 

[Tortoise]

They've changed their headline and content now.

 

[Alyce]

Nicholson is now asked about how he met Richard Elmes - the partner of Lucy's mother, Stacey White.
He said he used to go to school with one of Mr Elmes' relatives.
He said that Mr Elmes once messaged him asking for a tattoo.
He said they became friends.
Asked how they got on, he replied: "We got on brilliantly".

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[Alyce]

Nicholson said Mr Elmes told him that a room was spare at his father's house and Nicholson then rented it, with Mr Elmes' father as his landlord.

 

[Alyce]

Nicholson tells the court that after Mr Elmes' father's death, in 2016, Nicholson stayed in the house and helped to decorate it, before Mr Elmes and Stacey moved in.




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[Alyce]

Nicholson said he then lived with his mother. Nicholson said he had a falling out with his mother and was invited to move back in with Mr Elmes and Stacey as a lodger until he "sorted himself out".



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[Alyce]

Mr Newton-Price asks about Nicholson's work at Agincare.
He said he got the job through Stacey White.
He talks about blue gloves that were used during his job with the care provider.
He said there were a number of boxes of the gloves around the house he shared with Mr Elmes and Ms White.




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[Alyce]

Nicholson talks about his room at the house.
He said he had a lock on his door because he kept reptiles in his room.
He said one of the reptiles was a nine-foot Boa Constrictor, which he said could cause "serious damage" if someone let it out.

He said he also kept a tarantula, two chameleons and a gecko.



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[Alyce]

Mr Newton-Price now asks Nicholson about his bank cards.
He said he received the cards from his bank and placed them in a communal area of the house while he waited for pin numbers.
He said they went missing.

Nicholson said a number of items of his went missing, including money and "silly things".



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[Alyce]

Mr Newton-Price now asks about washing in the house.
He said he had his own washing basket and that it would get mixed in with the rest of the households.
He said the clean washing would be put on the dining room table.

Nicholson is asked if any of his washing ever went missing.
He said some would get mixed up in the washing.
He also replies that some of his clothes were found in Lucy's room.




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[Alyce]

Mr Newton-Price now asks about Nicholson's relationship with Lucy.
Nicholson replies: "We didn't see eye to eye. She would follow me around the house. She was always trying to get in my way and get involved in stuff she had nothing to do with."


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[Alyce]

Nicholson is asked about his protests to Lucy's mother and her partner about Lucy's behaviour.

Mr Newton-Price refers to text messages between him and Richard Elmes and Stacey White, previously heard by the court, in which he told them Lucy was following him about.
In the texts he threatened to "pay a bunch of girls at Lucy's school to beat her up".

Asked if he meant it, Nicholson said he was "angry" and "venting".





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[Alyce]

Mr Newton-Price is now referring to Nicholson's police interview.
In the interview he told police Lucy was acting "really stalkerish".

Mr Newton-Price refers to a part of the interview in which Nicholson is asked if he told the family about her behaviour.
He said in the interview: "I've been reporting it for absolutely ages."
He is asked if that is the case.
He confirms it was.




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[Tortoise]

I wonder if he will come across to the jury as sympathetic towards her. Even if she annoyed him most of the time, the fact of her murder should make most people soften towards a child victim and temper their criticisms.

 

[Alyce]

Mr Newton-Price asks if Lucy ever went missing.
Nicholson said she did. He said he would drive Mr Elmes around in a bid to find her.
He is asked how he felt about it.
He said: "I wasn't cross, I was annoyed because I had to keep going out of my way to help Richard find her."

Mr Newton-Price now asks about two occasions when school bosses had looked into claims by Lucy she had a boyfriend called Stephen.
Nicholson said Lucy's mother Stacey had told him something had happened and his name had been mentioned and social services were involved but that she had told him "everything had been sorted".

Nicholson is asked about claims made by Lucy that he had made her pregnant.
He replies that the claims were "nonsense".


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