Satellite expert tells jury car used in Connor Brookes drive-by shooting was equipped with GPS which left proof of journeys
The jury in the Connor Brookes murder trial have been told by a satellite expert car used in the shooting was equipped with a GPS system which mapped its movements.
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jury previously heard nearly three days of evidence relating to CCTV footage from across Walsall and Bloxwich showing the movements of Julian Falconer, 20, Jake Sanbrook, 23, and Byron Sellick, 20, before and after the fatal shooting in Blakenhall last Summer.
The prosecution called Dr Raymond Ford as their next witness in the trial, which is due to last six weeks. Dr Food is an expert in global satelite systems and compiled a report for the jury detailing the route the Ford Focus using pictures and when the GPS system was tracked at various points.
The car had been stolen two weeks previously and had cloned number plates on the day of the shooting, July 8, last year.
His evidence mirrored the CCTV timeline which showed the trio picking up a firearm hours before the shooting.
He said: "The GPS system uses tracking technology which shows when a journey started and finished and where it went in between. We can map the journey on July 8. The afternoon journey can clearly be seen in my report, it started at Astoria Close and then continued for the next hour and quarter.
"I have highlighted in yellow where a firearm was later found."
Falconer, of Wyrley Close, Willenhall; Sanbrook, of Fisher Road, Bloxwich and Sellick, of no fixed abode, are charged with murder, attempted murder and possessing a shotgun with intent to endanger life.Samuel Danks-Petty, 20, of Build Close, Walsall, is also in the dock accused of intent to pervert the course of justice.
Connor, 20, died from shotgun injuries after being blasted in the head whilst sitting in his van on Well Lane.
His passenger Bradley Sladyszyn survived the drive-by shooting but suffered wounds to his shoulder.
The prosecution alledge the shooting was another bloody chapter in an escalating dispute between two gangs of Walsall friends.
Last May Connor's brother Patrick was found guilty, along with six others, of murdering Bailey Atkinson in Walsall town centre in January 2023.
During the trial concerning Atkinson's murder the court heard his attack was in revenge for a stabbing on Ronan McCulloch's younger brother the previous November in Bloxwich.
Patrick Brookes, then 18, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In the hours preceding Brookes shooting the defendants met other friends, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and picking up a shotgun.
Falconer, Sanbrook, Sellick and Danks-Petty deny all charges.
