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York murder trial jury sees CCTV footage of Peugeot and men
The prosecution say these are Michael Mulvana, 32, and Jobie Tyers, 35, who are jointly charged with murdering Indrit Mustafaj in Vyner Street, off Haxby Road.
The jury has also seen photos of a knife that the prosecution say was the murder weapon and heard it described as a “zombie” knife and a “machete”.
On day five of the trial at Leeds Crown Court, they saw CCTV of a grey Peugeot car allegedly lent to Mulvana going along Haxby Road past parked emergency service vehicles shortly after the incident that led to Indrit Mustafaj’s death on November 23, 2024.
According to the prosecution the footage shows the car nearly colliding with another vehicle.
The prosecution alleges Mulvana’s DNA was found on the Peugeot’s gear stick and Mr Mustafaj’s blood on one of its passenger seats.
They also allege blood was found on a blue jacket found behind a fence of a Clifton resident and have heard evidence that Tyers stayed at the resident’s house for a while in the hours immediately after the attack on Mr Mustafaj and that Mulvana was with him outside the house.
The jury has seen a cap and a neck warmer found with the jacket that the prosecution says are identical to a cap and neck warmer purchased by Mulvana with a black base layer garment at Decathlon in Monks Cross shortly after 2pm on November 23 and seen CCTV that the prosecution say is Mulvana arriving at the shopping park in the Peugeot, going into the shop, buying clothes and leaving.
Mulvana, 32, of Bright Street, off Leeman Road, York, and Tyers, 35, of Gate Helmsley each deny murdering Mr Mustafaj, 26, of Bradford, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the woman and a second visitor to her flat.
Tyers has admitted robbery of Mr Mustafaj on the basis Mulvana was violent towards Mr Mustafaj during the robbery. Mulvana denies the same charge.
The jury was shown CCTV footage taken on November 23 and November 24, 2024, of people the prosecution say are Mulvana and Tyers, and the Peugeot, which police found on November 26 in a street off Water End near the home address of Mulvana’s mother.
They saw footage from a doorbell camera in Vyner Street, off Haxby Road, showing two people walking towards the bedsit. They have previously heard evidence that two men with hoods up, faces covered and only their eyes showing, were standing at the junction of nearby Newby Terrace and Belgrave Street, at about 7pm before walking off towards Vyner Street.
Then they were shown footage from a CCTV camera opposite the bedsit showing two men entering the bedsit at 7.10pm
They heard the woman living in the bedsit made a 999 call to the ambulance service at 7.16pm.
They were shown footage of the grey Peugeot lent to Mulvana entering James Street caravan site at 7.17pm and staying there about 10 minutes before travelling along Haxby Road at 7.33pm en route to Clifton.
Earlier they had heard evidence of a grey Peugeot car outside a house close to the bedsit in Vyner Street that a resident said did not belong to that house at 6.15pm. It was there for a time with two men inside, facing towards the bedsit. The car then drove off.
The trial continues.
