LEADING officers have shared footage in court of the days building up to a Wrexham man’s death with the movements of the person accused of killing him.

A trial started in Mold Crown Court yesterday (June 1) against Barry John Bagnall.

The 41-year-old stands accused of murdering Terry Edwards – aged 60 – between May 29 and June 1 last year.

The forklift truck driver, of Trevenna Way, also has a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice up for consideration by the jury.

On Wednesday, June 2, the court heard from Detective Constable Lee Jones of North Wales Police.

DC Jones was the officer overseeing the investigation and also conducted the interviews with Bagnall after his arrest.

The prosecution, Michael Jones, was assisted by DC Jones with reviewing CCTV footage with the jury that dates between May 28 and May 31.

These are the key dates when it is alleged Bagnall killed Mr Edwards and attempted to hide the body of the victim at his home in Pont Wen, on Caia Park.

The court heard about various text messages, calls and bank transfers that helped police build up their case to establish what happened between Mr Edwards last moments alive, subsequent death and the days before his body was discovered.

Firstly, the prosecution focused on statements Bagnall gave to the police.

The court was told Bagnall was first interviewed on Saturday, June 13 last year – a fortnight on from the timeframe when Mr Edwards was killed.

The prosecution said Bagnall descried the pair as “good friends” and told officers he was sad to learn of his death.

He told police how he would deliver food as he ‘was not in the best health’.

It was said that Mr Edwards was “frail and underweight”.

At the time of his death, he was said to have weighed just seven and a half stone.

The court was told how Bagnall claimed to visit Mr Edwards roughly two or three times a week at his home in Pont Wen – otherwise they were in regular contact over the phone.

The Leader: Barry Bagnall, of Caia Park, was killed last year. [Top Image: NWP Handout]

Terry Edwards, of Caia Park, was killed last year. [Top Image: NWP Handout]

Bagnall maintained that he saw the 60-year-old days before he died, on May 29, telling police he seemed himself and that nothing was a cause for concern.

Statements read out in court go on to detail how Bagnall wasn’t able to make contact with Mr Edwards for several days after.

He did visit the property twice but got no answer on the door and noted how the curtains remained closed.

Bagnall told police how he assumed Mr Edwards may have taken some sleeping tablets.

Further conversations with police involved the pair arranging to buy drugs and alcohol as well as outstanding money debts.

CCTV footage from the Holt Road branch of Asda, in Wrexham, proves that Mr Edwards was last seen alive making a cash withdrawal.

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Later dates – during the time Mr Edwards is believed to have been murdered – show the movements of Bagnall.

The case later focussed on the pink Huawei mobile phone recovered by Bagnall that feeds into his charge of perverting the course of justice.

The prosecution, along with DC Jones, walked through footage on the night of May 28.

They show Bagnall – accompanied by another man – finding the device and attempting to hand it into the property of a Ms Butler.

The mobile phone also had a bank card in the back of its case with the name.

When Ms Butler answered her door she declined to know anyone by that name and sent the men on their way.

The court heard in a statement taken by Ms Butler that she assumed her phone was left in her vehicle and realised she must have dropped it outside her home.

Bagnall is then said to have made searches online about the value of the device – learning it could bring him £200 once unlocked.

He tells Mr Edwards about this device and offers him the phone.

The court previously heard how, shortly after Mr Edwards death, Bagnall is said to have offered the mobile to Ms Crawford when her own device had stopped working.

Police searched her home and recovered the device in mid-June as part of the murder investigation surrounding Mr Edwards.

Bagnall is alleged to have told her that he had been given the phone by a woman named Rebecca Price. He failed to tell her about having passed the phone onto Mr Edwards before his death.

He is said to have visited her after learning police wanted to talk to her about the device.

Bagnall is accused of asking her to lie to police if quizzed saying that the phone he gave her was purple rather than pink, according to the prosecutor.

She refused to go along with his story after finding out where the phone had actually come from, the fact it was previously offered to Mr Edwards and wondering what Bagnall was trying to hide using her lie.

The trial continues…