Post by QPR Report on Apr 18, 2009 12:51:26 GMT
I think I missed this one!
Cardiff City
Case against Cardiff City chef ‘has many loose ends’
Apr 18 2009 South Wales Echo
A LAWYER claims the case against a chef accused of planning a £54,000 burglary at Cardiff City Football Club is full of holes.
Rhys Bailey, 24, is alleged to have been the “inside man” when access was gained to the official merchandise storeroom via a suspended ceiling.
Boxes of replica kits and other football-related goods were emptied into black bags.
Two dozen of the bags, as well as plasma TVs removed from the walls, were left behind when the raiders fled just before early-morning cleaners arrived on February 7, 2008.
Bailey, of Addisons Crescent, Ely, Cardiff, was identified by another member of staff as being one of three people captured, in the dark, on CCTV.
A latex glove found caught on a nail in the ceiling space was also later found to have his DNA on it. He denies burglary, says he was playing skittles that night and anyone could have picked up one of the gloves he had used in the kitchen.
Prosecutor Byron Broadstock told a jury at Cardiff Crown Court: “Just because evidence against someone is circumstantial, that doesn’t make it weak. He knew how to get in, knew the pin codes for the doors and had a ready market for the goods because he dealt in sportswear, having already imported 90 trainers from Thailand.”
But in his final speech to the jurors, defence barrister Hywel Hughes said: “Just thinking he might have done it is not good enough. The prosecution has to make you sure.”
Criticising the handling of the case in which the glove was destroyed after being forensically tested, he added: “This investigation has more holes in it than you would have thought possible.
“So many loose ends... all of them left hanging there just like that glove.
“If we had the glove now we might have found food on the outside of it from his kitchen or Mr Bailey could have tried it on.
“It may have fitted him like Cinderella’s slipper but what if it didn’t – how would that have affected your view?”
The jury will retire to consider its verdict on Monday.
(proceeding)
www.walesonline.co.uk/footballnation/cardiff-city-fc/2009/04/18/case-against-cardiff-city-chef-has-many-loose-ends-91466-23411953/
Cardiff City
Case against Cardiff City chef ‘has many loose ends’
Apr 18 2009 South Wales Echo
A LAWYER claims the case against a chef accused of planning a £54,000 burglary at Cardiff City Football Club is full of holes.
Rhys Bailey, 24, is alleged to have been the “inside man” when access was gained to the official merchandise storeroom via a suspended ceiling.
Boxes of replica kits and other football-related goods were emptied into black bags.
Two dozen of the bags, as well as plasma TVs removed from the walls, were left behind when the raiders fled just before early-morning cleaners arrived on February 7, 2008.
Bailey, of Addisons Crescent, Ely, Cardiff, was identified by another member of staff as being one of three people captured, in the dark, on CCTV.
A latex glove found caught on a nail in the ceiling space was also later found to have his DNA on it. He denies burglary, says he was playing skittles that night and anyone could have picked up one of the gloves he had used in the kitchen.
Prosecutor Byron Broadstock told a jury at Cardiff Crown Court: “Just because evidence against someone is circumstantial, that doesn’t make it weak. He knew how to get in, knew the pin codes for the doors and had a ready market for the goods because he dealt in sportswear, having already imported 90 trainers from Thailand.”
But in his final speech to the jurors, defence barrister Hywel Hughes said: “Just thinking he might have done it is not good enough. The prosecution has to make you sure.”
Criticising the handling of the case in which the glove was destroyed after being forensically tested, he added: “This investigation has more holes in it than you would have thought possible.
“So many loose ends... all of them left hanging there just like that glove.
“If we had the glove now we might have found food on the outside of it from his kitchen or Mr Bailey could have tried it on.
“It may have fitted him like Cinderella’s slipper but what if it didn’t – how would that have affected your view?”
The jury will retire to consider its verdict on Monday.
(proceeding)
www.walesonline.co.uk/footballnation/cardiff-city-fc/2009/04/18/case-against-cardiff-city-chef-has-many-loose-ends-91466-23411953/