Overview

• Jurors watched Sarah Hopwood’s recorded police interview describing a downstairs window smash, finding Barry Dawson bleeding near the sofa, and hearing his son shout that his father had been shot.
• Previous court evidence included CCTV said to show a man identified by the Crown as Sean Reay firing through the smashed living‑room window at about 5:15 pm.
• A Home Office pathologist reported a 9mm gunshot wound to the chest with rapid death, with the bullet later recovered from a sofa cushion and a casing found in the road outside.
• The prosecution alleges the group acted together, citing reconnaissance, glove purchases, the window being smashed before the shot, and bystander intimidation with a handgun.
• Jurors were told Reay, Kelvin Lawson, and Thomas Sterling took a taxi to Durham station and a train to Edinburgh that night, the Seat Arona linked to the trip was later found partly burned, and Michaela Hetherington reported it stolen, which the Crown says was a false diversion.