The mother of a convicted murderer has been found guilty of helping her son and his friend flee the crime scene and subsequently lying to police.

Georgia Potter, aged 51 of Meadowbank, Mylor Bridge, had pleaded not guilty to 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'.

However, in under two hours a jury at Truro Crown Court has returned a guilty verdict.

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.

Potter's daughter Brea Coggin, aged 23 of Avalon Close, Mylor Bridge, and who is also the partner of Bastow, is also guilty of the same offence as her mother, having pleaded guilty to it on the first day of the trial.

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Over the course of the three-day trial, the court heard that Potter had already dropped the men into Falmouth on the evening of the murder. 

She and Brea Coggin then exchanged a series of phone calls that resulted in her being asked to pick them up again a short time later.

She did so, collecting them at the bus stop not far from Falmouth Police station, and driving a different way home - she claimed in order not to arouse suspicion because the men had bought cannabis and that she feared she would lose her job as a carer if it was found in her car.

And after dropping Bastow back to Mylor Bridge, Potter and Kane Coggin returned to Falmouth again, Coggin was said to have then jumped out the car and run up Old Hill Crescent, with Potter driving in a loop before picking him back up.

Potter told the court this was for Kane to pick up his wallet that he had left behind, but the prosecution said they believed it was to pick up the clothes worn by the men during the murder.

Police have 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.

Both Potter and Brea Coggin will be sentenced on a date yet to be fixed.

More to follow.

Reports from previous days of the trial can be found here: