A SECURITY worker concluded his colleague Jack Crawley killed Annan man Paul Taylor after hearing about his alleged attempt to murder another man in York, a jury heard.

Marcus Goodfellow, 20, made the comment during an extended interview with the police after he was arrested.

He denies helping Crawley, who is also 20, to dispose of Mr Taylor’s Vauxhall Corsa car after his death and while knowing that his co-defendant had committed the arrestable offence.

Crawley has admitted the manslaughter of Mr Taylor but denies murder.

As the prosecution at Carlisle Crown Court concluded its evidence, barrister William Beardmore took the jury through the lengthy interviews that were given to the police by both Goodfellow and by Crawley.

The barrister summarised the comments and explanations that Goodfellow provided when he was interviewed at Carlisle’s Durranhill Police HQ on March 15.

Questioned about the background of his journey with Crawley to Langathby on October 19, after Mr Taylor died, Goodfellow told the officers that Crawley had told him the Corsa was from Darlington.

“He didn’t say why but he just said he took it from someone,” said Goodfellow.

“He was saying that he was having problems in Darlington; he said there was a father and a son, or a brother; two men, anyway. He was saying he was having problems with them… He talks shite constantly.”

Goodfellow said he did not know what the purpose of him going with his co-defendant that day was meant to be precisely, other than it was to help him take the car to one of Crawley’s friends in Appleby.

“He constantly talking in riddles,” said Goodfellow.

The defendant said Crawley would talk about GTA, [the Grand Theft Auto video game], and about missions, either in the game or real life. He never asked Crawley for any details about these missions, he said.

Crawley had also referenced “ten years for armed robbery,” he told the officers. Goodfellow was asked about a phone conversation he had with Crawley on October 18, and he recalled his co-defendant “being angry.”

“He was going to ***ing hurt somebody,” said Goodfellow.

“He talks shite loads; I didn’t really care so I went back to bed. I think it was something to do with being done over badly; he’s been done over for something… He said he’s going to hurt somebody, or seriously going to hurt someone.

“I just remember it wasn’t a nice conversation to have when you’ve just woken up.”

Goodfellow was asked about events in Langwathby and the conversation that went on in the car as a friend collected him and Crawley from Langwathby after his co-defendant crashed the Corsa after clipping a kerb.

He said Crawley had asked him to search for various places during the journey towards Appleby because he wanted to avoid using the motorway.

After the car was crashed, he and Crawley had waited out of view behind a “little hill” in Langwathby. “Jack Crawley didn’t want to be seen around Langwathby, especially since we had just crashed the car,” he said.

The police officers asked about claims from the friend who gave them a lift that Crawley had mentioned somebody dying, and the American serial killer Jeff Dahmer. Goodfellow said: “I don’t remember comments being made about Jeff Dahmer but he did [talk] about a man dying.

“I don’t remember the Jeff Dahmer part; that’s ***ing extreme. He talked about how he crashed the car and he was driving like a ***head.”

Crawley was “giddy and excited,” said Mr Goodfellow. He did mention that a man had died due to the car, said Goodfellow. He said he told Crawley to stop “talking shite” or he would hit him, and this did stop him talking.

He accepted that there could have been a reference made to a drug dealer but he could not recall the friend who was driving offering to take them to the police station.

Only after the Corsa was crashed, he said, did it dawn on him that the situation they were in was real.

Goofellow told the officers that, once he had made the link, he called Crawley and asked him what was going on and he replied: “Use your ***ing brain.” The defendant said he did not contact the police “out of fear.”

After seeing a TV report about Crawley’s alleged attempted murder of a man in York, he said, he reached the conclusion that Crawley had killed Paul Taylor and was not surprised when he was arrested.

He went on to tell the police officers that Crawley had told him he used the dark web to "search for paedophiles." Goodfellow added: "He gave the impression that he was one of the people who wanted to hurt paedophiles, not a chosen one, just paedophiles."

The jury heard that Goodfellow, of Greystone Road, Carlisle, has no previous convictions or cautions and that he answered all the questions that police put to him.

Crawley, who also denies attempted murder of the man in York and an alternative charge of causing the man grievous bodily harm, is due to begin giving his evidence later today.

The trial continues.