A complete wrap of week four of the Scarsdale murder trial
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Shirley Wilson (accused's mother)
- Told the jury Wilson lived at home with her in Ballarat.
- Said Wilson left the home about 7pm on January 4.
- He arrived home about 7am on January 5, a couple of hours after Timothy was allegedly killed.
- Said she was having breakfast when a bloodied and bruised Wilson arrived home, he had called her about 6.50am saying he was on his way home.
- She told the jury Wilson initially told her bikies had bashed him, but then said he had been at a house in Scarsdale and that Timothy had hit him with a baseball bat.
- Wilson told her he had been in a toilet and heard Peter Williams say "go in there and kill them."
- She said Wilson told her Timothy had also hit another man with the bat and that man had chased Timothy out of the house.
- Said she told him to have a shower and then she washed his bloodied clothes.
- "I just thought he'd been bashed by a bikie," she said.
- "I told him 'have a shower, I'll put your clothes in the wash'."
- Asked why she washed his clothes, she told the jury: "Because he'd had them on a couple of days."
- Under cross-examination she said her son lived with her, also with his young son.
- She said Wilson was on a disability pension and didn't earn much money elsewhere.
- She agreed with Wilson's defence counsel that the money he allegedly promised other prisoners if they killed witnesses, was fanciful.
Leading Senior Constable Paul Griffiths, Victoria Police crime scene examiner
- Attended the Scarsdale crime scene about 10.45am on January 5 last year.
- Said Timothy was laying on his back, dead, with extensive injuries to his head and two fingers severed from his left hand.
- Said various items were found with blood on them at the scene. These included: a ring, cigarette packet, blood stained tissue, knife, mobile phone and torch.
- A total of 45 blood swabs were collected from the scene.
- The jury was then played the gruesome crime scene video which showed Timothy's bloodied body and areas of the crime scene covered in blood.
Dr Jill Ramsay, Ballarat forensic medical officer
- Examined Wilson on the morning of January 5, sometime after the alleged murder of Timothy.
- Said Wilson has some injuries and told her he'd been knocked out for about six minutes.
- But she said, apart from a headache, Wilson had no other signs of concussion.
- She said she had "no idea" how Wilson came to the conclusion that he'd been knocked out for "six minutes".
- "He kept asking me ... How his injuries would feel and what would be the effect of his concussion," she said.
- "He seemed quite concerned by his injuries."
Dr Noel Woodford, forensic pathologist
- Conducted autopsy on Timothy's body on January 6.
- He detailed the severe injuries sustained by Timothy during his alleged murder on January 5 last year.
- Told the jury Timothy suffered 39 separate injuries to his body, including blows which directly hit the 14-year-old's brain.
- Dr Woodford said many of the injuries to Timothy's head and body had been difficult to interpret, with some featuring characteristics of both blunt and sharp trauma.
- "There were a cluster of injuries to one side of the head that have features intermediate between sharp force injuries, the sorts of injuries you'd get from the edge of a knife, and blunt force injuries," he said.
- "Some of those have features of chopping type injuries."
Dr Jessica Chang, forensic scientist
- Dr Chang, who is employed by Victoria Police's Forensic Service Centre, analysed a number of items taken from the Scarsdale crime scene, comparing DNA left on the items to reference samples from people including the accused and victim.
- Said there were so many blood samples taken from the crime scene that some were never analysed.
Senior Sergeant Bradley Mason, Victoria Police bloodstain expert
- Attended the crime scene at 5.14pm on January 5, 2013 for the purposes of carrying out a "stain pattern analysis".
- Was there until 3.30am, about nine hours.
- Timothy's body was still at the scene, lying on his back on a grassy area to the north of the house, the Senior Sergeant said.
- He described the large amount of blood around Timothy’s head: “It's hard to quantify... but I'd say there's certainly an amount of blood."
- "I'm still of the view that the body has been rolled into a position and it was, at one stage, face down into that saturated staining to the left."
- Said there was splattered blood near Timmy’s body, including a down-pipe which was nearby.
- “There is that spattered blood which indicates that force has been applied to liquid blood, to disburse the blood, um which ah makes it air born and small and deposits on surfaces nearby," he said.
- Said there was another area of splattered blood, in grass area, two metres from the body.
Ross James Miller, former prisoner who Wilson befriended while on remand last year
- Told the jury he and Wilson became "off and on" friends while on remand at the Melbourne Remand Centre last year.
- Said he (Miller) was on remand for sex offence charges and was later convicted and sentenced.
- He said Wilson talked about his case often and allegedly first asked Miller to write to a key prosecution witness and tell her to change her statement.
- Later, he said Wilson allegedly asked him to kill the witness and her children and to target an eight-year-old boy.
- He said Wilson also told him he could rape them, "as reward".
- "Virtually, he wanted me to rape them... one of them was my virtual reward," the former prisoner said.
- "He just wanted it quick and over and done with."
- Miller said Wilson allegedly told him where to find witnesses and what they looked like, adding Wilson wrote down addresses in his diary.
- Said he had no intention of carrying out the alleged requests and said he would "just to shut him up".
