This is the mystery ‘male one’ seen on CCTV before the 'murder' of Phillip Breach in Wood Farm in the early hours.
The beanie-hatted figure was caught on footage walking to the Atkyns Road shops after 5am on November 30.
Mr Breach, 59, was found badly beaten in a park between Wood Farm and Nuffield roads at around 6.15am.
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Despite the efforts of police officers and medics, he died later that morning.
Prosecutors say the 'male one' seen in the CCTV clips wandering around Wood Farm in the early hours was Liam Jones, the already-convicted killer currently standing trial for Mr Breach’s murder.
The 44-year-old defendant denies both the murder of his neighbour – both men living at Bonar Road at the time of the killing – and that he was the figure on the footage on the morning of November 30.
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Opening the case against Jones last week, prosecutor Sarah Gaunt said “The issue in this case is did this defendant do it?”
Yesterday (June 27), jurors were played a number of clips showing ‘male one’s’ journeys in the Oxford estate before Mr Breach’s death.
They included footage of the ‘male’ picking up a red upholstered bar stool from the pavement outside a property in Nuffield Road, then walking with it across a car park below Foresters Tower and towards a cut through to Bonar Road.
Last week, jurors were told during Ms Gaunt’s opening of the case that the barstool was found by police in a bin store belonging to Jones’ flat.
In another of the clips played to the jury, ‘male one’ was seen outside the Co-op in Atkyns Road.
He wore a pair of Adidas tracksuit trousers, a scarf around his chin and what officer in the case DS Richard Earl suggested looked like a Berghaus logo on his black beanie hat.
The jury was also played the CCTV that recorded Mr Breach shouting in apparent pain. The sounds of distress began at 6.02am and the clip ended at 6.06am and 27 seconds, by which time the shouting had faded.
Jones, formerly of Abingdon Road, Oxford, denies murder. The trial continues.
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