A JUDGE has begun summing up in the case of a man accused of the murder of a former shop manager in Bilborough.
Judge Michael Stokes QC went over the evidence against Damien Fogo, who denies the murder of Germaine Edwards last November.
Fogo, 32, previously of Hungerhill Road, St Ann's, has pleaded not guilty to three charges: murder, attempting to rob Mr Edwards and his friend, Dwayne Bryan, and possessing a handgun
He is alleged to have bundled Mr Edwards into the boot of a Ford Fiesta and shot him dead in Fairnley Road, Bilborough.
Judge Stokes told the jury this afternoon there was no doubt Mr Edwards was shot dead at or shortly after 5pm on Saturday, November 17, last year.
"He was shot once, probably from a revolver, with a Wadcutter bullet," he said. "It entered the right side of his abdomen, passed through his liver, then into his heart, through the left atrium, and came to rest in the upper lobe of the left lung."
The jury heard Mr Edwards did not die immediately but had managed to get out of his hired Ford Fiesta, where he was shot at close-range.
He walked a few paces before he collapsed in a garden off Fairnley Road.
Attempts were made to save him at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre but he was pronounced dead later that evening.
The judge said whoever shot Mr Edwards was guilty of murder.
"This defendant, Damien Fogo, has pleaded not guilty to the allegation of murder and the other two counts on the indictment. He says it was not he who pulled the trigger and shot Germaine Edwards."
He said the prosecution say Damien Fogo is responsible. He had been given a lift from the vicinity of a bus stop to a spot outside blue garages, on the Balloon Woods Estate, also called "Legoland", and had got out of Mr Edwards' hired silver Ford Fiesta.
When Fogo returned ten to 15 minutes later with a revolver, he allegedly forced Mr Edwards into the boot and ordered Mr Bryan to drive, and demanded money.
"Dwayne Bryan tells you he was terrified," said the judge.
He reminded the jury how Mr Bryan had left the Balloon Woods Estate and driven up the main road to Bilborough, through a red traffic light, and planned to cause some sort of scene outside Broxtowe Police Station.
He told the gunman there was money at the Rose pub, near the police station.
Then Mr Bryan tried to crash the Ford Fiesta into another car, but the driver swerved out of the way and the car stalled.
Mr Bryan ran, leaving the gunman to drive away in the car with 28-year-old Mr Edwards, Chingford Road, Bilborough, still in the boot.
"You know within minutes of the car speeding off Germaine Edwards had been shot," said the judge.
Fogo says that he never returned to the car and was not involved in what happened. At the time of the killing, he had been walking quickly or jogging toward Bilborough from a brothel.
The case continues.
