PROSECUTORS have labelled an accused Ballarat axe murderer a compulsive liar who cannot be trusted, telling a jury to pay no regard to "a greatest hits" list of lies.
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Senior Crown Prosecutor Andrew Tinney SC on Monday continued his closing address to the Supreme Court jury in Darren Wilson's murder trial, carefully outlining lies Wilson told which the evidence had proved wrong.
"The Crown would suggest the lies flowed thick and fast from his tongue," Mr Tinney told the jury.
"From the minute the accused opened his mouth and told people, including the police, what had happened, he came up with a veritable litany of lies. He just could not seem to bring himself to tell the truth about what had happened, at all.
"His dishonest stories, to which I will take you in detail, should leave you feeling very concerned about his believability as a person and the credibility of his defence in this court."
EARLIER IN THE TRIAL:
Wilson is standing trial in the Supreme Court having pleaded not guilty to the murder of Scarsdale teenager Timothy O'Brien, 14, who was allegedly killed with an axe in the early hours of January 5 last year.
Mr Tinney reminded the jury of Wilson's record of interview throughout his closing, saying Wilson went to great lengths to place the blame on others.
"You might ask yourselves this, if the accused was not involved in the murder of Timmy O'Brien, do you think he would have wanted to go off travelling away from the murder scene ... in a motor car which also contained the murder weapon," Mr Tinney said.
"That was his story. What a story it is. Patently dishonest and to be further embellished, changed, polished, as the interview proceeded."
Timothy's body was found at a Scarsdale house on the morning of January 5 last year.
The jury has heard Wilson and a 16-year-old girl living at the house devised a plan to lure Timothy's stepfather, Peter Williams, to the house and bash him.
Mr Williams and Wilson are cousins and the jury has heard their relationship had soured in the weeks leading up to Timothy's death.
Mr Williams was jumped by Wilson when he arrived at the Scarsdale house in the early hours of January 5.
Timothy used a baseball bat to defend his stepfather before he was allegedly chased out of the house by another man who allegedly used the blunt side of an axe to hit Timothy repeatedly in the head.
Wilson is accused of then grabbing the axe, turning it to its bladed side, and continuing to strike Timothy.
The trial, now in its sixth week, continues before Justice Betty King.
