Murder: Joint Enterprise Page #2

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"Fate f***ed me over."

She lent me her purse to buy the pizza.

If someone lends you something, they lend you what's in it, don't they?

They lend you their purse, and that purse has a key in it,

and that key opens a car, and then starts a car,

then, you haven't stolen a car.

Look, I HAD been drinking, I'm not denying that.

Look, my hands are up to that.

Cause of death was blows to the head with a blunt instrument or instruments.

One to the left at the front, three or four more to the back at the right.

The indentation to the front is semi-spherical in shape and less injurious.

The fractures to the back of the skull are penetrative and V-shaped.

There were other blows and kicks and a bite to the arm,

but it was the blows to the head that killed her.

Scene-of-crime investigation suggests the murder weapon

was a rectangular Amaretto bottle found at the scene,

and this tallies with the V-shape of some of the indentations,

presumably caused by the bottle's corners.

We had her blood on his jacket and shoes.

Her blood on the steering wheel. His prints on the bottle.

We had an eyewitness statement from the sister.

We had him.

PHONE RINGS:

I've got two brothers and they're both every bit as bad as me.

And I've got two sisters who are angels.

They're nurses, both of them.

And I've got another brother who's learning difficulties.

He wasn't born right, wouldn't hurt a fly.

So how does that one turn out, then?

Half of us bad, half of us good?

PHONE RINGS:

- WOMAN:

- I couldn't believe it when they arrested Coleen, but then I could.

CAR ALARM BLASTS

That's Coleen on the left, and Erin, the one who got killed.

They were arguing because Coleen wanted to get this tattoo,

and Erin wanted to stay in the pub.

I feel bad, because I told Erin that Coleen's boyfriend had a love-bite from his ex.

That's what he told me. Next to his nipple.

And then Erin was like, "Well, wait to see him and have it out,"

and Coleen was like, "No, we're going to get this tattoo."

And Erin's got this temper... Well, they both have.

And, well, watch.

Look, catfight!

And that's the guy that got arrested.

He comes in and pulls them apart.

That was those two laughing. and then just scratching eyes out.

I do love a development.

We enhanced the video taken off the mobile phone.

It looks like nothing, but then you see it.

Look...

Look, there.

It's a bloody pool ball!

I didn't really think I was neutral

but the police said you didn't have to be neutral to be a witness.

They'd seen it on YouTube.

'They said they wished I filmed all the trouble round here.'

Would have taken Ricky Hatton down, that.

I was a friend of Coleen's boyfriend, that's why I filmed it.

Thought he'd think it was funny.

Now I just don't know.

She calls me "H".

She said I don't deserve my full name.

That's how she treats me.

One day I'm, like, outcast - the next she can't get enough.

She must have phoned me 25 times that day.

- Texts?

- I stopped counting.

I never even looked at the texts, or the voicemail.

I know what she's like when she's drinking...

..but then I did have a look.

And I just thought it was more of her bullshit.

Yeah, we did have arguments - we're sisters.

Like the washing up, tattoos, love bites.

Sometimes, Erin, she needs a slap and she knows it herself.

Stuff builds up in her. It's for her own good.

She thought it was funny that H had a love-bite.

And he gives them to himself. He gives them to himself

and then says that his ex-girlfriend did them, and she knows that.

'Fresh thinking.'

One of those injuries wasn't Stefan...

at least one. Maybe even the fatal one.

Like, erm, she worked in Watermeadow Place...

..in the show home, showing people round.

She put a deposit on one of the flats there.

Like we were just going to go and move there.

- I said, "No way am

- I

- moving."

She said, "Why?", I said, "You know why...Mum."

She said, "Mum'll find us if she comes," but I just said, "No way...

"No. No way, no way, no way."

Yeah, she was a rubbish mum but I loved her.

She couldn't handle us.

She'd put me in the bathroom and tie the door shut till I calmed down.

And one day she just left.

Erin would never go without me.

And I said to them...

"If you look at that,

"it looks as though you're pulling her towards the flat

"against her will.

"Like you're doing what he's telling you."

She didn't answer that.

I said, "So, you have arguments, and we know you hit her in the pub.

"What about later on? What about at the flat?

"Did you hit her there...

"with the Amaretto bottle? Did you both hit her?"

No reply.

I said, "Just say no if you didn't.

"Otherwise I'll infer that you did."

No reply.

I said, "So, I'll infer that you did."

No reply. I repeated,

"I'm entitled to infer that you did if you won't say you didn't."

Silence.

Long silence.

I can handle silence...

she can't outdo me on silence.

You're looking at the bloke who sits by a river with a rod in his hand

saying nothing to no-one for days on end.

Then she just says...

"I did."

Two things she could've meant by that...

first, "I did say that I didn't."

Second, "I did hit my sister with the bottle later in the flat."

"Which of those two do you mean?" I said.

'We're sisters. We argue...'

'He killed her.'

Closed up. Moment was gone.

WOMAN:
The pool-ball injury wasn't fatal

but we found traces of Coleen Lowell's skin

under Erin's fingernails...

and traces of Erin's under Coleen's.

No scratching on the footage taken by the barmaid

and no scratches visible on either of them here. So...?

I was arrested at 11 at night...

I was drunk, I was speeding.

If I hadn't been doing those things

then maybe I'd still be a free man now

cos she never knew my second name or where I was from.

But the clincher, right? You'll like this - look.

You spin a bottle, you hold it like this.

We had both the suspects' prints

on the Amaretto bottle in this sort of area -

and the deceased's.

But if you want to kill someone with it, this is how you hold it.

Big heavy thing, that Amaretto bottle.

Whose fingerprints you think we found round this section?

Both of them.

Oh, yeah, we upset her, me and Coleen.

We had sex and she didn't like it.

She hit the f***ing roof - thought me and her should be doing it.

Well, that was the way they'd f***ing worked it anyway.

So, she lost the plot completely -

started screaming, shouting, scratching out

but we never f***ing killed her!

She was a virgin and she thought her moment had come,

but he couldn't keep his hands off me.

- MAN:

- Joint enterprise - R v Swindall and Osborne, 1846.

Two cart drivers were racing, pedestrian got killed.

They wouldn't say which hit him.

Since both were "equally encouraging the other in the race"

it was deemed irrelevant which of them had actually struck the man.

Joint enterprise.

Joint enterprise?

Till they get to court, that is. Then it's cut-throat.

What, I encouraged her and she encouraged me

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