??/??/?? - Nicholls Trial Points
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Q. You are in fact using Bridge as a Suicide Jockey, whereby, if he gets stopped and searched, you elude prosecution. Bridge then takes the rap; Only on this occasion, you are under intense Police surveillance, because of your dealings with the corrupt D.C Bird When Bridge is stopped, so are you? (Operation Apache)

Q. Police find the 10 kilos of cannabis resin in the transit, and both you and Bridge are taken into custody?

Q. You are questioned on the 13th and 14th May 96 to which you give no comment answers to?

Q. During this reticent period your duty solicitor informs you, many arrests have been made, including Police Officers. You are also informed that a pump action shot gun has been found at a premises which you have knowledge of.... Why do you now offer your alleged murder information, after you have been arrested with hands on £25k worth of cannabis and your fellow conspirator D.C Bird you have confirmed is now in the slammer?

Q. Colin Bridge, your suicide jockey, caught red handed with 10 kilos of resin, has no charges to face, and is released, once you begin you epic story to the Police. What deal did you strike with the Police to enable Bridge to be released?

Q. Bridge is not only released, but for reasons better known to the Police and the C.P.S Mr Bridge now becomes a principal witness for the prosecution?

Q. Does "Colin Bridge" ever use the V.W. Passat, which you allege to sell Steele, and is driven by you on the day of the murder 6.12.95 (See Con/Wit Bridge pg 390,392)

Q. Do you own a Winnie Bago camper?

Q. Did you request Jack Whomes to pick this vehicle up for you on 29th Dec 95?

Q. Why did you ask Jack Whomes to pick this vehicle up, instead of you usual gopher Colin Bridge

Q. Did Colin Bridge accompany both you and Whomes when you retrieved this vehicle?

Q. When requesting Jack Whomes to retrieve this vehicle on 29th Dec. 95, just 23 days after the Rettendon Murders, had you decided then to make plans to set him up for an importation charge?

Q. Has Jack Whomes retrieved any other vehicles at your request, directly or indirectly?

Q. Has Jack Whomes ever assisted you in other way regarding vehicles? (6/24 Nichols 17.5.96) Whomes re-cuts tyres, and sells Nichols diesel. It is April ,96.

Q. You have tyres re-cut and purchased diesel from Whomes, who is clearly working for a living to assist you! How far had you progressed by April 96 to "set Whomes up for an importation charge?

Q. You are aware Jack Whomes constantly maintains a fleet of H.G Vs for a living and is considered to have excellent expertise in this field,... would you agree with that?

Q. You have seen Whomes workshop maintenance depot. Would you agree these premises are well equipped and professionally run? (Show photos)

Q. In short Whomes is a very capable person, when dealing with vehicles of all types?

Q You have told us that Steele is a very clever man, (21. 5. 96 pg 2) He also is a very clever engineer, whose skills range from designing and building houses to using computerised engineering equipment. His workshop is also equipped with high technology equipment, Would you agree? (Show photos)

Q You will agree they are very capable engineers?

Steele and Whomes capabilities do not fit into Nichols plot!

Q. According to your statements, every crime which you allege takes place, had a number of strikingly common factors, which inevitably points towards YOU....

E.G :-

1. You confess to taking large amounts of money abroad to purchase drugs
2. You are not only captured with drugs when arrested, but confess to dealing in drugs, and of course you confess to dumping drugs associated with a murder.
3. Travel expenses, tickets etc. are all purchased by you, allegedly paid for by someone else.
4. One of the most striking and obvious factors, is whenever a motor vehicle is used for an illegal purpose, you supply the vehicle, be it owned by you or hired by you.

V.W Scirrocco Owned Used for alleged drug run into Holland.
V W Cabriolet Owned Used to take drug money into Holland.
Peaugeot 406 Owned Used for alleged drug run into Holland.
Jaguar XJ6 Owned Used to retrieve drugs on 13.5.96.
Transit Van Owned Used to retrieve drugs on 13.5.96.
Land Rover Owned Used to recover drugs on 13.5.96
Citroen Owned Used to recover drugs at Gallows Corner.
Seat Hired Used for alleged drug run Holland.
Mondeo Hired Used for alleged drug run Holland
VW Passat Owned Alleged murder vehicle.

Q. You allege to sell Steele your V.W Passat, which on the 6.12.95 you say Whomes uses to drive to the Halfway House in, and later picks you up after Steele drops you off?

Q. Exactly when do you sell Steele this V.W. Passat? (Con/Wit Bridge pg 390). Bridge tells us 6.12.95 perhaps! (Nichol 22.5.96 pg 13) (4/11 14.5.96) Nichols puts no date to the sale of this Passat.

Q. Do you have written evidence to corroborate your alleged sale of this vehicle to Steele?

Q. When and how were you paid?

Q. Did you fill in the log book declaration, and notify the D.V.L.C. change of ownership?

Q. You owned and used this vehicle for a number of months?

Q. Did Colin Bridge ever use this vehicle? (Bridge confirms once only Con/Wit pg 390) On 6.12.95.

Q. Whilst clearing out the barns and carrying out electrical work at Meadow Cottage, did you ever arrive on site driving the V W Passat? (Yes)

Q. Did Colin bridge or Frani Reed ever travel in the V.W Passat to Meadow Cottage or any other place of work? (Yes)

Q. Did you ever travel to a local pub for lunch whilst working at Meadow Cottage with Mr Steels as passenger, in the V.W Passat (Reed front passenger seat Steele rear seat passenger, Pub.. . The Olde Ship Great Clacton.

Q. Do you recall Mr Steele test driving the V W Passat with a view to purchasing it for his elder sister, during one of your many visits to Meadow Cottage?

Q. He found this vehicle unsatisfactory didn't he?

Q. If as you allege Steele purchases your V W Passat, it would follow,that he may have occupied every seat in the vehicle?

Q. (10/3 Nichols 20.5.96) You are asked by D.C Winstone, Quote, "Have at any time both these persons been in the back seat of the vehicle"?' (V.W Passat)

Q. (10/3 Nichols 20.5.96) Why do you say "Technically yes ... Mick might have leant in the back"?

Q. Were you having a memory lapse when asked this question. Had you forgotten Steele was the alleged owner of this Passat. and quite likely sat in every seat??

Q. I put to you, this is more of your Fact into Fiction?

Q. I put to you Forensic science cannot put Steele in this vehicle All you are assisting Police to do is to place him in the rear of this vehicle corruptly? Setting him up!

Q. I put to you, it is most likely Your V.W Passat is never at the murder scene, as forensic science once again fails to provide any evidence to corroborate this?

Q The only thing we are positive on Mr Nichols, is that you are most definitely at Workhouse Lane, Rettendon on 6.12.95 You admit being there simply because you have to because your mobile phone itemised bills and relevant cell sites used by your phone on this night confirm it. Cell sites at Basildon and Rettendon connect your phone on 6.12.95. (See Police exhibits pg 279)

I put to you neither Steele or Whomes drive to, or leave from "Work House Lane" on 6.12.95 in your V W Passat It is our belief neither does the V.W Passat? Steele and Whomes both vehemently deny ever stepping into Workhouse Lane, throughout their entire lives!

More "Fact into Fiction", because Nichols believe at this stage the Passat really has been destroyed

Q. We agree a poor memory makes for a poor liar, which can be shown by comparison (4/13 Nichols 14.5.96) (7/35 Nichols 17.5.96) The obvious point,to compare is the actual location where Nichols alleges Whomes attempts a number plate change. But what is more significant is the (7/35) reference to this Nichols Quote "See me through it I remember"

He is clearly asking Brown for guidance. Notealso it is Brown who suggests he changes the number plate prior to reaching the Halfway House, and not after' Of course reference (4/13) must be quoted, as Nichols appears to assume Whomes is so thick, attempting to stickon false number plates. This is clearly not Jack Whomes the engineer! "This is Nichols", What's more significant, Jack Whomes is now going to carry out a murder regardless of false number plates. Time and time again Police describe these murders as a professional hit. Nichols description does not fit the bill. What must Steele think, when he arrives at Workhouse Lane, and cooly murders 3 people, only to find his V.W Passat has straight number plates!

Q. Allow me to demonstrate the weakness of your memory, which also illuminates your Fact into Fiction efforts and just how diseased your mind is..

(Nichols 22.5.96 pg 24) Whilst at Meadow Cottage, (assumedly 16.12.95, ten days post murders Steele informs you, Sarah Saunders has spoken to him and claims Ian Spindler was supposedly meant to be in the Range Rover, with the deceased, on the night of the murders You allege Steele would have bumped him off too if this had been so! Merely because Spindler was an old adversary of Nichols, "Nice touch"!

Q. Fact .. Saunders does convey this information, she also informs Steele of her violent row with Tate the afternoon of 6.12.95 She also speaks of her telephone call to Tate. In an attempt to pacify him. This is how you come by these facts, through Sarah Saunders, not as you allege through Steeles first hand experience?

Fiction

Q. (Nichols 4/26 14.5 96) Just 8 days prior, you tell us Steele gleans this information regarding lan Spindler first hand whilst he is travelling in the Range Rover to death alley. Which is yet another example of Fact into Fiction, proven through a poor memory Corroborated by Saunders!

Q. (Nichols 4/26 14.5.96) Nichols first stab at the murder, he introduces the lan Spindler fabrication which cannot be corroborated, but totally neglects Saunders phone call to Tate which can be corroborated. He is obviously influenced later and has a total reversal of lan Spindler saga and Saunders phone call to Tate.

Q. You allege Steele gives you first hand information relating to these murders, e g. Saunders phone call to Tate The number of times Steele fires into the victims and reloads. Saunders informs him Tate refuses to repay the Mullocks Saunders tells him lan Spindler should have been in the Range Rover. These are but a few Can you give us any reason why Steele may be falsifying any of this information, telling you untruths of his actual alleged experiences?

Pre-influence statements by Nichols clearly suggest Saunders phone call commences as Range Rover is turning into the lane, time of call commencement 18.44hrs giving the Range Rover 1 minute to reach the gate, after turning into the lane, means Tate has at least 2mins 46secs of phone call left which does not fit into the alleged schedule.

It also means Whomes and Nichols must arrive at least by 1841hrs hopefully to be in position, as Whomes would have to walk from the turn off into the lane, to the gate area.

Nichols alleges to leave the Halfway House at 18.30hr; to travel to Work House Lane, which is a 14 mile drive! Allowing an average speed of 45 MPH it will take Nichols and Whomes 19 minutes to reach the top of the Lane! (Winstone and Brown Exh ref pg 151 CDW/41... (Police time for this journey 21 minutes) This would indicate an E.T.A to the top of the lane 1848hrs! Nichols and Whomes arrive too late, 8 minutes too late!

If we adopt Nichpls influenced attempt, which is the phone call ends as they reach the top of the Lane, this indicates the Range Rover arrives at exactly 1848hrs at the top of the Lane. Clearly Whomes and Nichols have to arrive at least 3 minutes prior to this at a minimum! Which means they must arrive at 1845hrs the latest. Calculated E.T.A. is 1849hrs. They are still 4 minutes too late!

It is clear from Nichols 4 attempts at this phone call, that he knows a phone call takes place. He does not know initially the time and duration of the call, or which cell site services the call. "Police do"! From (N/Apache 5.7.96 pg 25) (14/1-11) We can use the inference by quoting from the top of the page, that Nichols committal statement is a project of Police influence, they have told Nichols this phone call must end prior to the Range Rover reaching the Lane! "To fit the Nichols saga".

HOWEVER! Could Nichols be telling an essence of truth? Let's assume he is in the Range Rover and witnesses Saunders call, which does not end or commence as the Range Rover enters the Lane. (1844hrs to 1848hrs)

Observe closely Police photographs at scene There are carbon deposits under the exhaust tail pipe of Range Rover, which would indicate it stood there running for some time!

We also have confidential witness "Raymond Alfred Wright" (statement 13.12 95) who observes a Range Rover enter the lane between 18.50 and 1900hrs) which he claims had Rear Lamp guards! The deceased vehicle of course, does not!

Also we have the witness Kevin Tarbuck (unused 14.12.95) who at 1940hrs witnesses a white Ford Escort Van, pull out of the Lane in front of him. This witness describes Nichols account of a near miss. but Nichols puts the V.W. Passatt in the frame, not an Escort Van! Police at one stage had Tarbuck as a confidential witness.

Raymond Wright (statement 13.12.95 confidential witness)The Range Rover this man observes entering Workhouse Lane at 18.50hrs on 6.12.95, is clearly not the deceased's vehicle, as rear lamp guards are a feature of the vehicle he witnesses. What is significant, three men of large stature occupy the vehicle, the one sitting in the rear off side seat is wearing a fawn light coloured top, not overalls!

We have a photograph of Nichols and Steele together (exhibit Sep 13 pg 172) where Nichols is wearing such a top!

(Rebecca Carr 9.12.95 unused witness) Identifies a Range Rover on 6.12.95 at. Rettendon Turnpike at 17.45hrs with 3 occupants Pat Tate is identified as the rear seat passenger and Tony Tucker resembles one of the front seat passengers. Rebecca Carr observes a Sierra type vehicle ahead of them, which she witnesses both the Range Rover and the Sierra, pull into the farm shop at Whitehouse farm!

This would suggest that Tate et al are not at the Halfway House at 18.30hrs, and seem to know the general area to which Nichols suggests they have to be guided by Steele!

Raymond Wright, Rebecca Carr and Kevin Tarbuck are all independent witnesses, who produce striking evidence, but Police only wish to produce one of them Raymond Wright. Police have not yet fell in about the lamp guards.

It is the appearance of Colin Bridge Nichols Suicide Jockey. who turns up at Jack Whomes commercial premises driving a White Ford Escort Van on 6.12.95, which magnifies the importance of witness Kevin Tarbuck.

Colin Bridge, and the Sorrel Horse payphone. calls to the deceased and Nichols on 6.12.95, completes the picture.

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