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Court views videos from hours taken before deadly attack

A Supreme Court jury watched CCTV footage following the movements of a man accused of a fatal shooting hours before the murder.

Kiari Tucker, 27, has denied the 2017 murder of Marlon Steede, 35, and the use of a firearm to commit an indictable offence.

The court previously heard that Mr Steede was chased through the One Way Deepdale area of Pembroke and fatally shot on the night of November 3, 2017.

Prosecutors have said that the shooting was a deliberate and co-ordinated attack and that Mr Tucker was the man who pulled the trigger.

As the trial continued yesterday, the jury was shown CCTV footage from Court Street on the day of the shooting.

Detective Constable Christopher Sabean told the court that he had seized thousands of hours of footage from businesses and police CCTV systems recorded on the day of the murder.

The first clips shown to the court showed a man Mr Sabean identified as Mr Tucker arrive on Court Street at about 5.41pm wearing a black sweater with a white zipper and draw strings, a black helmet, black trousers and grey shoes with white soles.

The footage largely showed Mr Tucker with others on the sidewalk near the Elliot Street parking lot.

At about 7.48pm, Mr Sabean said he noted one of the people with the defendant look at something lit up in his hand. He and the defendant then walked a short distance together before the other man crossed the street.

Minutes later, at about 7.54pm, he said the video showed Mr Tucker getting on to the back of a bike ridden by another man, who he identified as Judah Roberts.

“Mr Tucker appears to put a helmet on his head,” Mr Sabean said. “A motorcycle then gets on the side walk, pops a wheelie and stops next to the defendant.

“Mr Tucker then gets on the back of the motorcycle. The motorcycle then rides off the kerb at 7.55pm and on to Court Street.”

Mr Sabean said the motorcycle was seen on CCTV footage travelling over Till’s Hill, on to Parsons Road, past the Glebe Road and on to Two Way Deepdale.

There, he said the motorcycle turned around before travelling on to One Way Deepdale, riding the wrong direction up the one-way road.

The motorcycle was next seen on the same camera a little less than 13 minutes later travelling back down One Way Deepdale before travelling back to Court Street along the same route.

Mr Tucker then got off the motorcycle outside the Elliot Street car park at about 8.11pm and Mr Roberts rode away.

The trial continues.

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