A father-of-four was ‘successfully executed’ in a London park after being mistaken for another person, a court docket has been instructed.
Dean Edwards was gunned down two years in the past as he walked again from a pub in the direction of Anerley station.
The 43-year-old suffered ‘catastrophic accidents’ after being shot via the again of the pinnacle in Betts Park, Penge, within the early hours of July 12, 2020.
Taylor Purdy, 26, of Dulwich, south-east London, denies murdering him.
However the prosecution declare he's the person proven in CCTV footage taken close to the park earlier than and after the killing.
Talking on the Previous Bailey, prosecutor Julian Evans QC stated: ‘Given the circumstances wherein Dean Edwards met his loss of life – shot as soon as to the again of his head as he walked via Betts Park on his personal, late at evening – there might be little doubt, say the prosecution, that he was murdered.
‘The taking pictures concerned the deliberate, focused discharge of a firearm at an unarmed man from behind. It was successfully an execution killing.’
Suggesting the sufferer was merely ‘within the fallacious place on the fallacious time’, Mr Evans additionally highlighted two theories about why Mr Edwards was focused.
‘As to the taking pictures itself, it could be that it was a case of mistaken identification’, he stated.
‘In different phrases, the gunman, ready in Betts Park, meant to shoot somebody that he mistook Dean Edwards for.
‘Alternatively, it could be that the taking pictures was motivated by the necessity to make some kind of “assertion” within the Penge space and that it didn't matter who acquired shot.
‘Both approach, the taking pictures seems to have taken place inside the context of different points, different rivalries or conflicts, none of which involved Dean Edwards.’
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Mr Edwards was strolling alone when he was shot.
The jury instructed that he jury was instructed that ‘in all chance’ the gun was a self-loading pistol, with a 9mm cartridge case discovered near the physique simply off a path.
A fired 9mm bullet was retrieved in the course of the autopsy examination.
Mr Evans stated: ‘In all chance, the person who shot him – the gunman – will need to have been mendacity in wait someplace inside Betts Park.
‘From the proof, it will seem that the gunman will need to have seen Dean Edwards after which approached him from behind earlier than taking pictures him. He did so, apparently, with none warning.
‘It will seem that Dean Edwards was fully oblivious to the presence of the gunman and to the risk that man posed. Mr Edwards had no alternative to react.’
The jury was instructed that DNA proof hyperlinks Purdy to a cigarette butt present in a residential road close to Betts Park, and CCTV footage within the native space was recovered.
He accepted that he smoked cigarettes however not day-after-day and stated he didn't know why a cigarette butt bearing his DNA had been discovered within the space.
Throughout his police interview Purdy denied any involvement within the taking pictures, and denied being the person on CCTV within the neighborhood of Betts Park and the encompassing space on the evening of July 11 and into the early hours of the next day.
He denied any involvement within the homicide, including that he had no situation with anybody from the Penge space and didn't know Mr Edwards.
Purdy stated he could have been out with associates in a automobile on the evening of the homicide and claimed that he was not in Betts Park.
The trial continues, with the listening to adjourned to Thursday at 10.30am.
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