There is a lot more to it than that. I will explain later.
David, interested to hear what you have to say about it,
Darren Nicholls never actually testified that Steele and Whomes committed the murders. What he did say is that he drove them to a location near Rettendon and later received a phone call from Wholmes on his mobile to pick them up somewhere nearby.
This is all corroborated by the cell tower evidence and call times recorded by the telecom provider.
Whomes made calls to Tucker and Tate on the day of the murders.
Patricks girlfriend called him on his mobile shortly before the murders. Nicholls knew of this phone call from overhearing a conversation between Steele and Wholmes after the murders.
Not long after that phone call ended Jack Whomes mobile called Nicholls mobile. According to Nicholls. Whomes said "pick us up" this is corroborated by the telecom records showing the call was four seconds long.
Not long before the murders Patricks girlfriend told Steele that he was planning to kill him.
Nicholls also testified that when he picked them up they were both wearing gloves had guns and were also out of breath.
Police recovered a pump action shotgun at Steels address also.
When first presented with the telecom evidence, Steele and Whomes gave no explanation for them. Once all the details were released to the defence suddenly Whomes decided he was in the Wheatsheaf pub more or less down the road from the crime scene at workhouse lane. At the time of the murders.
