Teen’s sister tells lawyer of alleged gunman to ‘stop being funny’

The hearing heard a “small debt” had mounted and a “frustrated” Mr Cohen had “brought in” his distant relative Wilson. The day before Mr Corrigan’s death, a group of men arrived at his home address in an Audi 4×4 and demanded to know his whereabouts. They then followed Mr Corrigan’s sister, Amelia, to her grandfather’s house, where they shouted at her brother that he “shouldn’t start something if he’s not going to finish it”.

Ms Corrigan was questioned extensively by Wilson’s barrister Nigel Power KC during this week’s hearing. Mr Power asked Ms Corrigan about the incident on November 11 when “a mix of men” arrived at their family home looking for her brother.

Mr. Power asked Ms. Corrigan if she had heard Wilson talking to his mother. He said: “No, I walked away. He got out of the car and said, ‘Where’s your brother?’ Mr Power replied: “Nobody was saying ‘once we see your brother it’s over for him’, were they?”

Miss Corrigan told him: “Yes they did, did you sit there and call me a liar?” Mr Power said: “I stood up” and Ms Corrigan replied: “Stop being funny.” “You said you didn’t have Nyle’s phone number,” Mr. Power said. “Were you covering up his drug dealing?” he continued. Ms Corrigan said: “It wasn’t me.”

Mr Power said: “That’s what Martin (Wilson) came to your mother for, wasn’t it? To get some cocaine.” Ms Corrigan said: “He’s definitely chatting, oh my.” Mr Power said: “You weren’t there” while Ms Corrigan replied: “So why would he jump out of the car and tell you where your brother was?”

During the 90-minute cross-examination, Mr Power had previously asked Ms Corrigan to: verify that both he and his mother, Lesley Kelly, have access to messages on your phone. He confirmed that this was true. He then asked: “Was Nyle dealing drugs?” Ms. Corrigan’s response: “Not that I know of.”

He said: “Have you ever seen the messages where your mother is chasing money for drugs?” He said he would see the messages, but he was only 17 and they were none of his business. He said: “Did you have any suspicion that Nyle might be dealing drugs?” Ms. Corrigan answered no. He asked: “Was Nyle in trouble with anyone else, was he in a fight with anyone?” Miss Corrigan told him: “Not that I know, but he wouldn’t argue with me, I was his little sister.”

Mr Power then asked whether Mr Corrigan had been stabbed in early 2020 and he confirmed that he had been stabbed. “How did you know she had been stabbed,” he asked, to which she replied, “Because there were scars.” Mr Power asked: “Did Nyle tell you anything about the stabbing?” Miss Corrigan said no. The defense attorney then asked: “I thought you said he wasn’t in trouble with anyone else?”

Ms Corrigan said: “You’re talking months ago.” Mr Power said: “Do you know anything about him being stabbed?” He said: “No, I just know you were stabbed. I was 16. Can you explain that to your 16-year-old?”

Mr Power then asked Ms Corrigan why her brother had two phones: an iPhone and a Nokia. He then asked: “Do you know what a graft phone is?” He said “everyone knows what a graft phone is” and Mr Power asked him to tell the jury what it was. Ms Corrigan said: “I don’t know, I’m a girl. I don’t have a corruption phone. Why don’t you tell them what it is?”

Mr Power asked: “Is this a phone used for criminal activity?” “Did Nyle have a corruption phone call?” before asking. Ms Corrigan said: “A Nokia and a corruption phone are two different things.”

Mr Power also questioned Ms Corrigan about the delay in handing over her own phone to police as part of investigations into her brother’s death. Mr Power asked: “When you told the police that Nyle did not have a phone with a number on it you refused to give them your phone.”

Ms Corrigan said: “No, they copied all the data on my phone.” Mr Power replied: “Yes, on January 29, when you finally agreed to give it to them.” He added: “Have you deleted anything from your phone?” Ms. Corrigan answered “no.”

Mr Power told the jury that instead of initially handing her phone to police, Ms Corrigan sent screenshots of messages to officers, including her brother giving his phone to ask for Wilson’s number, as well as sending his own messages to Mr Cohen’s partner Ms Donnelly.

Mr Power said: “Please go back, there is a message on November 4th, this is your Facebook account but your mother is chasing Liam for money…why didn’t you send a screenshot of this to the police?” Ms. Corrigan responded: “I don’t know.”

Mr Power said: “There’s a message from Liam – ‘does three weeds want tomboy’ – and then there’s a message of ‘Nyle doesn’t want star dog’. What’s that?” Ms Corrigan replied “weed”, while Mr Power replied: “How does your mother know what star dog is?”

Ms Corrigan responded: “She says she doesn’t want Nyle’s star dog.” Mr Power said another message from Mr Cohen said “there’s a point here, can you have one, I can give you the rest of the tomoz”, which was followed by Ms Kelly saying “just saw this, do you still want one?” ” was answered as follows. Mr Power said: “Is your mum offering Liam a bag of stuff?”

Ms Corrigan said: “I don’t know, it wasn’t me. You’d better ask Mum.” Mr Power said: “That’s why you didn’t let the police take your phone, wasn’t it?” Ms Corrigan replied: “No, because it’s my phone.”

Mr Power told the jury that the “messages showing Nyle trying to chase the drug money” were not sent to police and were “deleted from Ms Corrigan’s phone” when she handed them over to police in January 2021. They were saved because Ms Donnelly took screenshots and sent them to her mother, Janet Gallagher.

The jury had previously been told the alleged gunmen (Wilson and Smith) were meeting and shopping on the night of the shooting. black hats, face masks and gloves from a convenience store. Mr Wright told the jury they proceeded on foot before having a “pre-shooting rendezvous where the components of the plan could be put together, including the gun, ammunition, location of the victim and a rough plan of post-shooting clean-up”. .

Allegedly, the two men then went to the scene and waited there. “Knowing that Nyle Corrigan will be there”. The court heard the killers spoke to their target before and after the shot went through his spine and ruptured an artery before leaving him for dead.

The killers then stole Mr Corrigan’s Sur-ron electric bike to escape. The bike was later found abandoned in bushes in the Quickthorn Crescent area, while the firearm, which was defective and meant a second cartridge could not be loaded into the magazine, was later seized in an unrelated police operation.

Coggins of The Spinney, Stockbridge Village; Llewellyn is officially from Olivette Way. St Helens; Smith from Midway Road huyton; Wilson, of no fixed address, and Melanie Smith and Mark Sharpe, both of Midway Road, deny the charges before them. The hearing before His Honor Judge Goose continues.