GUILTY UK - Sadie Hartley, 60, murdered, Helmshore, Lancs, 14 Jan 2016 #1

[Alyce]

Sarah Williams is shown a picture said to show her removing a tracker device from Ian Johnston's car. She says its not her.
Prosector asks her to explain how the tracker then found its way into her car minutes later. She says she can't explain it.....
....."It's not for me to come up with explanations" says Sarah Williams.
Sarah Williams has also said she doesn't know how the tracker came to put on charge at her home.





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BIB
That made me laugh, though I know I shouldnt....

 

[Alyce]

Miss Williams sent explicit text on Christmas Day

Mr McDermott: “Over Christmas things take a bit of a lull.

“On Christmas Day you sent Ian a text.”

Williams sent Mr Johnston an explicit photo on December 25 wishing him a Happy Christmas and asked him ‘am I allowed to ring you?’


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[Tortoise]

I'd be very worried if I were her, that I hadn't noticed someone taking and using my car

 

[Tortoise]

our reporters seem to be covering different trials Alyce

 

[Tortoise]

They've just had a 10 min break.

 

[Alyce]

Short break

We’re just having a short break here.

The jury are due to be shown some more CCTV when the prosecutor resumes.

 

[Alyce]

our reporters seem to be covering different trials Alyce

Indeed. The MEN reporter is also covering a local shooting from last night and I think he is more involved with that event

 

[Tortoise]

Sarah Williams being shown CCTV which prosecution say shows her scoping out her victim's home a week before the murder.
Sarah Williams denies the figure seen in the footage is her.


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[Tortoise]

[h=3]Williams denies she is figure on CCTV[/h][FONT=&quot]The jury is now being shown some CCTV from Jan 5 to Jan 7, 2016.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Williams admits to being in the area on those dates.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The footage shows a car driving up and down Sunny Bank Road in Helmshore before parking up.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A figure is seen walking up and down the road on both nights.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]On January 6 the same CCTV cameras capture a car that looks like a Volvo Estate drive down the same road before a figure is seen walking up and down the road again.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Prosecutor Mr McDermott says on January 7 a ‘remarkably similar car’ is shown driving up and down the road again.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This time two figures emerge from the car.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Prosecutor McDermott claims the pair is in fact Sarah Williams and Kit Walsh on their first ‘reconnaissance’ of Hartley’s home in Helmshore.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Williams denies it was them.

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[Tortoise]

Sarah Williams says she went to Helmshore looking for properties to buy - something she hadn't mentioned in her defence statement.....
Prosecutor: "You're making it up as you go along aren't you?" SW: "No".


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[JerricaBenton]

Is that her whole defence? Just deny, deny, deny even the most compelling evidence?

 

[Tortoise]

Sarah Williams tells the jury she had no desire to hurt Sadie Hartley.


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[Tortoise]

[h=3]Miss Williams 'was looking for property in Helmshore'[/h][FONT=&quot]Miss Williams claims she made frequent trips to the Helmshore area to look at properties.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Miss Williams said: “I was looking at properties. I wanted a fourth property.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]On January 7 the defendant said she and Kit Walsh went for dinner before heading up to Helmshore.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Prosecutor Mr McDermott added: “You have been sitting for months racking your brains for explanations.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“You’re just making it up as you go along.”

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[Tortoise]

sorry Alyce I jumped in with the updates because I saw you were offline

 

[Alyce]

sorry Alyce I jumped in with the updates because I saw you were offline

no probs, just deleted mine - had to deal with a client call ! so irritating of them to interrupt me

 

[Alyce]

Defendants 'giggled' as they bought flowers

Sarah Williams and Kit Walsh delivered flowers to Sadie Hartley’s home in Sunny Bank Road in the middle of the night on January 7, the court has heard.

Williams said they ‘giggled’ as the purchased the flowers from Tesco and made the delivery.

Kit Walsh was the one who had found out where Ms Hartley lived, according to Ms Williams.

Miss Williams said: “She [Kit] said ‘I have ways and means’. It was a phrase she used.

“It was silly, it was ridiculous,” adds Williams of that night.
“This story is ridiculous,” says prosecutor Mr McDermott.


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[Alyce]

Am a bit puzzled as to why Williams found it so difficult to obtain Sadie's address. Why didnt she just look it up on line ? instead of the expense of a tracker etc

 

[Tortoise]

Wasn't Sadie renting?

 

[Tortoise]

Another possibility - they wanted to know when IJ's car wasn't there to find Sadie at home alone. When they first set out on this plan they may not have known IJ was going to go abroad without Sadie.

I expect they couldn't quite work up the courage to do it with IJ in the country, in case he unexpectedly came home while they were there.

 

[Alyce]

Flower delivery was ‘pretty creepy'

Prosecutor Mr McDermott says the flower delivery to Sadie Hartley’s home was ‘pretty creepy.’

“It was pretty creepy what happened, what you and Kit were giggling about,” he says.

In response Miss Williams said: “Looking back it was a stupid thing to allow to have happened.”

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