The mother of a man jailed for the murder of Aaron Pill last year has told a court that she has no idea he has been involved in a crime when she gave him a lift home that night.

Truro Crown Court was hearing the second day of evidence in the trial against Georgia Potter.

Potter, aged 51 of Meadowbank, Mylor Bridge, has been charged with assisting an offender, and that 'between May 3, 2020 and May 9, 2020, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, she facilitated transport to move Liam Bastow and Kane Coggin, and their clothing, away from a crime scene, and gave false statements to the police in relation to the movements Liam Bastow and Kane Coggin with intent to impede the apprehension or prosecution of Liam Bastow and Kane Coggin, persons who had committed the arrestable offence of murder, knowing or believing the said persons to be guilty of the offence or some other relevant offence'.

She has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Potter is the mother of Kane Coggin, who last December was jointly found guilty with Liam Bastow of the murder of Aaron Pill at his home in Tresawle Road, Falmouth on May 4 last year.

She is alleged to have knowingly collected the pair from Falmouth to help them escape the scene of the murder, before driving her son back into Falmouth again - the prosecution say in order to collect clothes they had been wearing that night, something that Potter denies.

Instead, she told the court today (Thursday) that the reason for taking Coggin back in to Falmouth again that evening, after dropping Bastow home, was that on the return journey he had told her he had left his wallet at the property they had visited.

Early on in her evidence she said she had suspected they were going to buy cannabis in Falmouth, later amending it to say Coggin had actually told her this was the case.

When asked by prosecutor Sally Daulton why she had agreed to go back in a third time that night - having already given them an unplanned lift in to Falmouth and then returned to pick them up shortly afterwards, which she said had left her "irritated" - and why she had not suggested he simply collect it the next day, Potter said: "He had been somewhere to purchase cannabis. You don't know how many visitors that person may have of an evening.

"It seemed a bit of a dangerous place to be leaving your wallet."

Barrister Mark Dacey, defending, read out the prepared statements that Potter had given to police during her first two interviews, via a solicitor, in which she said that after dropping the men off in Falmouth she had gone to fetch a relative's electric key to top up.

However, Potter said in court today: "I did make a mistake on that one. It wasn't that day I picked up his key. That was just an oversight."

When cross examined by Ms Daulton, who said: "I would suggest you thought that up to throw the police off the scent of what was happening that night, and you later changed your story when you realised the timings didn't allow you," Potter replied: "I did no such thing."

Potter reiterated on a number of occasions that she had no knowledge on that night that either Coggin or Bastow had been involved in a murder.

When questioned by Ms Daulton whether Potter noticed the men to be dressed in coats, caps and gloves, and whether she thought this was unusual, given that she herself had driven in just pyjamas and a cardigan, Potter repeatedly said she did not recall what they had been wearing, adding: "I did not pay any attention at all."

Potter said both men had sat in the back of the car on all the journeys, due to a Pot Noodle being spilled on the front passenger seat.

She said she did not recall any conversations on the journeys or what either had looked like or been wearing.

Mr Dacey asked her: "Did you have any reason to recall?" to which Potter replied: "Absolutely not."

The court heard yesterday that police had never found the clothes the men were wearing that night, as shown in CCTV footage in Mr Pill's house, despite searching both their houses and around Falmouth.

The trial continues. 

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