A 43-YEAR-OLD man accused of murder denied attempting to replace a lost passport to flee the UK following Devon McPherson’s death, a jury at Oxford Crown Court heard today.
Giving evidence for a second day, Robert Chin, of no fixed address, said he had been taken from East Oxford to London and dropped off there by drug-dealing friend ‘Little Man’ on the afternoon of the stabbing.
John Price, prosecuting, said: “You fled to London and you hid. You changed your appearance by growing a beard, you disposed of the mobile phones you had been using in Oxford.”
Chin replied: “That’s not true.”
Mr Price responded: “You went to get a passport to flee the country.”
Chin said he wanted the passport to get work, and added: “If it was my intention to leave the country I would know there would be a bulletin at the airports looking for Robert Chin and Headley Michael Thompson (the name on the passport he used to enter the UK).”
The trial continues.
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