Police to detail lead-up to arrest
More police interviews with Scott Guy murder-accused Ewen Macdonald will be read and played to the jury this week.
The third week of the trial is set to begin after last week’s emotional evidence of conflict in the Guy family. The trial is moving into the investigation phase with details of how police narrowed in on Macdonald.
Macdonald has pleaded not guilty to shooting Scott Guy twice in the throat in pre-dawn darkness on Mr Guy’s driveway on July 8, 2010.
Jurors will see a lengthy DVD interview police made with Macdonald before moving on to the scene examination at the home of Mr Guy on the morning he was shot.
They will hear about the missing chocolate Labrador puppies, the arson of the old house on Scott and Kylee Guy’s property and of malicious letters left in a letterbox, some of which Macdonald has admitted doing.
The Crown has told jurors of a campaign designed to drive Mr Guy and his wife off the family farm after months of tension between the two men over their future with the business.
The Crown is now about half way through the list of witnesses.
Part of the upcoming evidence will be about impressions of dive boots left at the scene, which the Crown say have to be from Macdonald because he had owned a pair of size 9 proline dive boots.
The public gallery was packed each day last week and heard emotional evidence from members of the Guy family, especially Kylee and Scott’s mother, Joanne Guy.
Anna Macdonald, Ewen Macdonald’s wife, was the last family member to give evidence. While she was in the witness box, Macdonald became tearful.
Members of the family have returned several times to give their evidence about different phases of the investigation.