Tony Thomas ‘had changed clothes before police arrived at scene’

TONY Thomas changed his clothes before the police arrived at the scene, the court heard.

The items were screwed up and tossed away in a Lidl bag.

DCI Lynn Wiltshire, who oversaw the investigation into the death of Dafydd Thomas, brought the evidence into Mold Crown Court, where Tony Thomas is on trial after denying the murder or manslaughter of his father.

She held up a pair of black jogging bottoms and a long-sleeved shirt, and said some underwear and socks were also in the bag.

The jury saw that the clothes were dumped in the supermarket carrier bag among other rubbish on the family’s Gwynedd farmland.

Items were seized by the police when Thomas, of Penrhyn Isaf in Minffordd, was arrested on March 25, 2021.

The jury previously heard that Thomas has accepted that he attacked his father by kicking and stamping on him wearing steel-toe boots.

It was said earlier in the trial that the now 45-year-old had changed into a completely different outfit by the time his step-mother had called the emergency services when her husband was found injured on the driveway approaching their home.

It has previously been reported that a local coroner provisionally listed the 65-year-old’s cause of death as a result of “inhalation of blood due to severe blunt trauma facial injuries”.

Prosecutor Gordon Cole KC presented the jury with printed copies of photographs taken via the police body-worn cameras during Thomas’ arrest.

These depicted him wearing a tan-coloured overall outfit along with brown boots and a white cap.

The defendant does not accept the murder charge he faces.