Witness in the crime process for the man from Tasman, Dean Jupp, accused of the theft of weapon “mastery”

A lawyer accused a man who gave evidence in a murder process of being the main plan of a plan to steal weapons, including an AK-47, from the property of Tasmania in the northwest of the dead.

WARNING: This story contains details about violence that can cause suffering.

Mitchell Flanigan appeared at the Supreme Court of Burnie on Tuesday, as a witness in the trial of Dane Ronald Pyke and Blaise Christopher Baddeley, who are accused of killing Dean Jupp.

Mr. Jupp was 59, when he was killed violently at his home, on January 23.

Mr. Pyke and Mr. Baddeley pleaded that they are not guilty of murder, aggravated theft, aggravated armed robbery, burglary, thefts and giving illegal fire on the property.

The prosecutor of the crown, John Ransom, told the court that the two men were planning to steal weapons from a safe in a transport container on the rural property of Mr. Jupp and claimed that they used violence to overcome their resistance.

Mitchell Flanigan accused of “revealed” the property

On Tuesday, Mr. Flanigan said he was the “designated driver” on the day of the incident, but denied the knowledge about where they were going.

He told the jury that they gave directions to the property by the others.

The group consisted of Mr. Flanigan, Mr. Pyke, Mr. Baddeley, and Mr. Pyke’s girlfriend, Nikiya Lee Coleman, who was 18 at that time.

Mr. Flanigan said that the group stopped smoking methamfetamine, a drug typically as ICE, at a cemetery before.

However, Mr. Baddeley’s defense lawyer, Olivia Jenkins, rejected Mr. Flanigan’s event version and told the court that his journey was his idea, suggesting that he offered to pay the other $ 1,000 or a sum of methammatamine to help steal weapons.

Mrs. Jenkins assumed that Mr. Flanigan knew about the property of Mr. Jupp and there is evidence that he was there in previous weeks.

Mr. Flanigan agreed that he was there and lost his wallet at the time, but said he was there with a friend “in search of Dope plants”.

Mrs. Jenkins rejected this explanation.

“You knew there are firearms there. You don’t need directions to the property.”

Mr. Flanigan denied her version of events.

Mr. Flanigan said he was initially seated in the car when the others went out to Mr. Jupp.

He said he didn’t think someone was home on the day until he heard a window breaking.

He told the court that he had heard that a male voice resorted to instructions to tie Mr. Jupp, and he was asked by Mr. Pyke to help a weapon safely in one of the transport containers.

But Mrs. Jenkins suggested that Mr. Flanigan was actually the one who led the attempt to steal the weapons and became aggressive when the others tried to enter the safe.

She suggested that she told the group that there would be an AK-47 assault rifle in the safe and again repeated that the plan to steal weapons is his, which he denied.

Involvement in unpaved death

Mr. Flanigan also denied any involvement in the death of Mr. Jupp and told the court that the man was still alive and moved when the group moved away from the property.

Mr. Flanigan said he did not hit and did not attacked Mr. Jupp, nor did he see any of the other strike or attack Mr. Jupp.

In the photographs shown before the court, the corpse of Mr. Jupp seemed to be covered by blood and that he suffered such serious injuries his facial features were difficult to identify.

Christopher Lawrence, a forensic pathologist who examined the corpse of Mr. Jupp, said that the wounds were in accordance with the fact that he was prevented on his chest and beaten with a change key.

The court heard that it was not until the next morning, when he read a news report on a Facebook post, Mr. Pyke learned that someone had died.

The trial in front of the justice Tamara Jago will continue until the beginning of April.