Details of calls jail by accused
Wilson: offender.”
Later in the call, Wilson asks the woman to tell him what it says in the paper.
She tells him: “It says it was part of an ongoing operation, there have been arrests made... doesn’t say why it just says the armed response were there, ah, that’s all it says.”
Wilson: “So what’s the main thingy on it saying.”
Woman: “Four people have been arrested.”
Wilson: “[In] what street?.” Woman: “Wingrove Avenue.” Wilson: “They raided a house there?” “Naughty, assisting an Top, armed police at Wingrove Avenue in Fenham, Newcastle, in February last year. Inset, bags of ammunition found at Wingrove Avenue. Above, a rifle hidden under floorboards at Wingrove Avenue. Top right, the window in Drysdale Court, Brunswick Village, which police said was shot at Woman: “Aye.”
In another call on March 6 at 12.53pm, Wilson is talking to a man and he asks what wing Scott is on and is told A-wing.
The man says: “Aye they came on just before I got out. I was standing in the dinner queue and his brother was behind us blowing on me neck.”
Wilson: “What was he blowing on your neck for?”
Man: “F*** nas.”
Wilson: “Proper weirdo, someone’s come on this wing called Paul. Divvn’t na who it is.”
Man: “It might be him, here me and Flick and that were on about it the other day... If you stay on there they’re just going to, one of them’s going to end up getting themselves put on that wing.”
Wilson: “Aye I na, I na. I’m ganna, f ****** , I’m going to snap the pool cue and stab him with it ya na.”
Man: “You not got no tins of tuna?” Wilson: “What, na?”
Man: “Order a couple. Put it in your sock.”
Wilson: “Ah aye, I’ll just snap me f ****** toilet brush.”
Kenneth Moran, 27, of Caroline Cottages, Slatyford, Newcastle; Michael Conroy, 36, of Heathfield Crescent, Cowgate, Newcastle; Darren Appleby, 23, of Deepdale Crescent, Cowgate; Jamie Moran, 28, of Whickham View, Newcastle; Sean Ree, 25, of Coach Road, Wallsend; and Bailey Wilson, 21, of Cartmell Green, Slatyford, all deny conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life in relation to the Brunswick shooting.
Ree has pleaded guilty to the lesser alternative of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, which the others deny.
Appleby, Conroy and Jamie Moran deny conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life in relation to the Benwell shooting and they deny the alternative of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
Conroy also denies possessing ammunition, namely a .22 bullet, without a certificate.
Appleby and Jamie Moran deny possessing a firearm without a certificate, namely a pump-action rifle, and possessing ammunition without a certificate, namely .22 bullets.
Ree denies criminal damage in relation to the alleged attack on Cafe West on October 13.
The trial continues.