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The fifth defendant, Jason David Signal, is not a Mobster. Ash, who has been described to the trial as a high-ranking Mobster from the Taupō area, sat silently when he was asked to give an oath or affirmation to give true evidence. It was the same position he took when he was brought in for questioning on Wednesday. He was expected to talk about a robbery Rowe and Wilkinson allegedly carried out against a Bunnythorpe man. The Crown says Rowe and Wilkinson failing to share the proceeds of the robbery, $11,000 cash and 3 ounces of methamphetamine, led to them being violently kicked out of the Mob.
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On Monday Hewitt told the jury she’d seen Rowe with blood coming from his head while outside her Ashhurst house the night Wilkinson was allegedly killed. Wilkinson was at the house and when men arrived he went outside with Rowe, telling Hewitt to stay inside, she had said. Signal’s lawyer Charl Hirschfeld questioned Hewitt’s memory of the night, saying she was stressed and unable to accurately recall everything. She disagreed. “I was focusing on my child and everything, really. You can’t just focus on one thing when you’re in a situation like that. “In the back of my mind I’m worried about my child.”