GUILTY Wales - Gerald Corrigan, 74, killed with crossbow bolt, Holyhead, 19 April 2019

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Steve Bagnall

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He referenced a Facebook page”Find Richard Wyn Lewis”. Whall’s friend Gavin told him about him. He had been mucking out horses for him.

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“Anything I have heard has come through Gavin.”

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He talks about a person called Rhys - the rumours have come through Gavin through Rhys.


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April 17 - he is asked where he was. He said his partner was on holiday and was “messaging her backwards and forwards.”

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But the messages weren’t coming through so he went onto WhatsApp and was at home most of the time and his knew was “really bad” at the time. He’s a sports therapist, but had to cancel work because he couldn’t walk. He was indoors and couldn’t do much.

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He said he was supposed to go and pick up his partner from the airport. Gavin has popped round and spent a lot of time texting his partner. On 17th he was mainly at home. May have seen a friend and had a Chinese.

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May have also gone to McDonalds on 17th and would have been in a Land Rover Discovery reg CX68 YTE.

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Said he got back up just after 10pm and got to bed about 12am to 1am on April 18. Was texting his partner from his iPhone. He’s had the number for years and were about picking her up the next night.

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He was meant to pick her up at 1-2am in the morning on Thursday night Friday morning.

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1am 8am on the the 18th - there wa nothing significant “I would have been sleeping”. His phone was playing up and he was on standby to pick up his partner and then no phone contact with his partner who was due to arrive back at the airport about midnight.

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Whall said he spent the morning watching films on Amazon and messaged his son happy birthday

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He said his phone was blocking peopl’s number randomly and he was unblocking them at 10pm at night. On the 18th said he went out to get food, probably to McDonalds at 2pm in the afternoon and was using the Land Rover Discovery.

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Whall says he was “probably in most of the time in the 18th” in the evening he was watching TV and messaging Emma. He was just waiting.

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About 10pm-11pm he says he was at home. Whall was saying he would come to pick her up despite his knee because she had been ill before. Went to bed about 1ish on April 19, he says.

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He had two phones in his bed. He woke up about 3am in bed when Emma and the kids came back.

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Whall says between 10pm to 3am on April 18-19 he was at home “I would have been at home”.

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He says the Land Rover wasn’t working very well. Burning it was the worst thing “because they were trying to reject it back to Land Rover” There was no way they would have done that to the car.


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Whall says he is remembering back a couple of months but he removers picking up Emma and it was his son’s birthday.

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He says he did not use the Land Rover that night. Gavin Jones came around, but he doesn’t remember anybody else coming round The Land Rover would have been “just outside the window” and confirmed there were 2 keys to it.


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Whall says he doesn’t remember anything out of the ordinary happening.

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Whall said they went to bed and woke 8am-9am. He doesn’t remember going out. He was from Essex and moved into Garddefa in August 2018 with his partner. He was sports therapist and injured his knee “through martial arts and wear and tear”.

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He said he ran the “Movewell Centre” but was thinking of getting a job, He said they weren’t struggling financially.

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They have another a car a Mercedes - but the Land Rover has been playing up - He says he doesn’t remember anybody else driving the Land Rover.


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He said he has trained martial arts with some of the best in the world and said he had done including Tai Chi, Wing Chun and karate and now taught his own thing.

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Whall says he knows he has bought crossbows and arrows and never hidden it at all and had accounts with Amazon and eBay.

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He said his 773 was his main number and it was in his iPhone 7 which was playing up and he threw it away.

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He put it in the bin and it had been taken.

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Whall said he had weeks of the iPhone playing up. He said he started using a cheap phone after and put it in his hand set.

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Steve Bagnall

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April 19 - Whall confirmed he used a cheap £10 throw away phone until about a week after and threw it away after it stopped working. He bought a new phone from Asda.


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Whall said he had reused the 773 number by getting a new phone and SIM. It was being used in a phone costing £25. He had another iPhone 6 that the police had.

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June 25 next interview. Says he knows nothing about Gerald Corrigan “I’,ve never met the guy.” He said he had heard from Gavin there had been a shooting. And he heard the news.

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Gavin said it was about how stressed Wyn was about and he started saying about the money - £400,000.

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Whall said he knew Wyn owed him money.

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Whall said he heard Gav said he had £400,000 “out of the bloke that was shot”. “This bloke had taken all their money”. His conversations with Gav were about the other stuff Wyn had done and he was stressing out.

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Gavin said he not had his wages. He said Mr Lewis had owed him wages.

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Whall said Mr Corrigan would not have known him.

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Whall said he had seen a picture in the paper of Mr Corrigan’s house “and that’s it”.

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Whall said he knew nothing about Mr Corrigan and had not been to his address or around his land. “Why would I go there?” he said.

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He was shown a map of Gof Du and indicated a bungalow that he taken Gav to a couple of times, to which was Mr Corrigan’s mum’s house.

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Gav was doing some work on that bungalow and had a chat with him outside. He heard that Wyn and Gerry had this bungalow together.

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Gav was working on this place with him but Wyn was getting stressed, said Whall.

 

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Steve Bagnall

@DPWrexNews
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In interview Whall says he has driven down towards Gof Du with Gav and turned the vehicle around, when they were looking for Wyn.

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Whall says he has been to Gof Du in the evening maybe when it’s getting dark, with Gav.

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He says he possibly went to Gof Du between April 17-19. He said he would take Gavin there to find Wyn. He owed Gavin wages for ages he said.

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Whall said they didn’t get out of the car when they were there.


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Whall said he hadn’t visited any other locations in the Gof Du area over the last few months “I don’t know anyone there,” he said.


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Whall says he’s never been in Gavin Jones Toyota, He says he had heard Wyn was doing big cannabis grows.


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Whall said Gavin Jones was one of his clients and they became friends. He would come round about 9ish and they would train on the grass and spar. He started seeing home more regularly recently.

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Wyn issue slowly starting creeping in, Whall said. Gavin wasn’t getting paid.

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April 17-19 Whall said Gavin Jones was around in the morning. He had first worked for Richard Lewis to help him out, but Wyn had conned him into working longer hours and not paying him.

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He said he had now relationship with Richard Wyn Lewis. He met him for the first time becuase Gav was going to get his money on the 31st.

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Whall said it was about £12,000 and had been going on for a year Gavin had loaned Wyn.


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Richard had been promising him and they drove in Gav’s Toyota”. It was the only time he had been to Wyn’s property in Caergeiliog.

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Whall said he has driven near Wyn’s property, but has never been in it. He has been near it he said probably to the Chinese. His car would have been parked “around their loads”. He would have been walking.


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Whall denies ever having any communication, financial or business interest with Wyn before. He said he looked like “a fat tramp”.

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Third interview. June 26 2019.

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Whall said he had heard had never been defrauded by Wyn and only had second hand knowledge from others about his behaviour.

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Whall said he would not go to Wyn to try and “retrieve money”. He said he thought it was £12,000 but then Gavin said it was less than that.

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Gavin had been working for Wyn including mucking out horses and working on the bungalow.

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Whall confirmed that Thomas Barry Williams was a “good friend” and knew him as Baz. He was previously a client.

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Whall said he had used Mr Williams in martial arts videos to demonstrate self defence.

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Whall said Barry had a new girlfriend and he hadn’t seen him for months. He said they would go to Holyhead mountain for walks in 2018.

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Whall said they would contact each other by phone. They wouldn’t contact each other for a few weeks and then it could be every day.

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Steve Bagnall

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Trial finishing for the day. The court is not sitting tomorrow and the case will resume on Monday at 10.30am.

 

[Alyce]

I sure hope the Jury are following this better than I am

 

[Alyce]

Thanks as always for the updates Legally

 

[Ann Blyth]

I sure hope the Jury are following this better than I am

It’s all very convoluted, isn’t it? I am also having trouble following it, it’s usually easier in Court (I hope).

 

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All roads seem to be leading back to 'Wyn the Grifter', who doesn't seem to be a defendant in this case. Is he on the witness list? I was thinking poor Gerald's murder was a 'for hire' job, but I'm as confused as everyone else at this point. Moo

 

[Alyce]

All roads seem to be leading back to 'Wyn the Grifter', who doesn't seem to be a defendant in this case. Is he on the witness list? I was thinking poor Gerald's murder was a 'for hire' job, but I'm as confused as everyone else at this point. Moo

Wyn certainly seems to have the biggest record of * incidents* .... have just been reading through the FB pages set up to * find* him, a few years ago.

 

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All roads seem to be leading back to 'Wyn the Grifter', who doesn't seem to be a defendant in this case. Is he on the witness list? I was thinking poor Gerald's murder was a 'for hire' job, but I'm as confused as everyone else at this point. Moo

I'm sure you're right that this happened because of Wyn. I wish the prosecution had a clear argument on motive as it is confusing. My first thought was the same as yours, "murder for hire".

I've been trying to think of other motives and it's slim pickings in terms of likelihood:

Trying to frame Wyn;

Using GC's murder as a threat to Wyn; and,

Wyn had promised GC some money back if he helped defraud Thwall or one of his mates, so they killed him.
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I don't like the last one and not sure about the other 2. Any other ideas?

 

[Alyce]

Mold Crown Court 2 T20197335
T20197465
gavin jones
terence michael whall
Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 10:57
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 2 Continues - 11:10

 

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Loads of tweets to catch up on, here goes:


Kelly Williams

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Here at Mold Crown Court for the resumed trial of Terence Whall who is accused of murdering Gerald Corrigan with a crossbow on Anglesey on Good Friday last year.


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Gavin Jones is co-accused of conspiracy to commit arson and perverting the course of justice.

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The hearing is now into its third week


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Whall said he ‘never kept it a secret’ that he had crossbows. He would show them to his clients and even let them fire them. He admitted his knowledge of them wasn’t that great and didn’t realise bolts and arrows were different things.

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He said he got interested in crossbows at the age of 38 because of YouTube videos. He was initially interested in archery and wanted to get bows and arrows for his kids to get them outdoors rather than on their computers.

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But he said the kids weren’t interested and he looked at crossbows because he has a shoulder injury that archery might irritate.

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When he bought a crossbow he had to email a picture of his passport as ID.

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When it arrived he said he set it up and tried it out straight away. He even bought a target.

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Whall bought 20 inch bolts to go with it. He said they don’t last long and he “went through loads of them”, all different types and colours. Some were bullet-like blades and some were hunting tips.

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Whall said he bought crossbow, bolts and tips all separately. He started out with hunting tips and then ‘started buying more fancy ones’. He said he fired it loads of times and set up rubber targets outside his house.

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But he said he ‘wanted rid of it’ because it was ‘too big, bulky and heavy’ for the kids. He said he was down one one knee firing it at a target one day when a man came to the house asking if a caravan on the site was for sale.

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Whall said the stranger turned his attention to the crossbow and asked to buy it. Whall said he sold it to him for £180 and put the money towards buying a second crossbow.

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Whall volunteered the information about the encounter with the stranger to police who didn’t know about the first crossbow when they arrested and questioned him.

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When he bought the second crossbow he said it ‘looked smarter.’ The kids didn’t use that one either because it was ‘too bloody big and heavy for them.’

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He bought a micro crossbow and accessories and arrows but said it didn’t turn up until after the Easter bank holiday. He said he didn’t realise the newer crossbow only took 16 inch bolts until just after he received it.

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He said he didn’t know the bolts and accessories weren’t interchangeable.


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Whall ordered the micro crossbow on April 11.

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Whall told police in the period over the bank holiday he didn’t own a crossbow. He said he bought all the firing equipment for in in anticipation of the arrival of the micro crossbow that didn’t arrive until after Mr Corrigan was shot.

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He said when it arrived he didn’t set it up because he’d heard about the shooting of Mr Corrigan. He said he was going to go to the police to tell them he’d recently ordered a crossbow.

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He said he left it in its box for ages and didn’t set it up in case police came round. But he figured they must’ve had information showing he hadn’t received it until after the incident. He said “I thought the reason you hadn’t come is because you knew I hadn’t used it.”

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