Shropshire border kidnap case defendant 'linked to calls', court told
A police communications expert has told a trial that phone calls made around the time of an alleged kidnap were made by the defendant.
Detective Constable Andrew Fawkes Williams of Dyfed Powys Police alleged that mobile phone calls had been attributed to the accused Nathan Parry at the time of the offences last September.
It related to an alleged kidnap which is said to have happened near Oswestry.
The prosecution case at Caernarfon Crown Court was due to finish today.
John Philpotts, for the Crown, has told the jury that the story is "more like a television police drama".
According to the prosecution the victim had been kidnapped in a stolen black Audi which had pulled up in his driveway in the Four Crosses or Llanymynech area with bogus police officers.
Parry, 37, of Jack's Wood, Ellesmere Port, and Natalie Goode, 33, of Willow Road, Lache, Chester, deny kidnapping, false imprisonment and blackmail.
Parry also pleads not guilty to intimidating the man. The jury has been told that two men had pleaded guilty to their parts in the event.
In his evidence the man spoke of his terror as he was kidnapped.
He refuted angrily a claim by barrister Gareth Roberts, defending Parry, that the case was about a drugs gangs turf war.
He said he'd been frightened not only for himself but for his girlfriend and mother. His mother, a businesswoman, described how a man and woman had arrived at her home after midnight on the night of the kidnapping, and she handed £11,000 to them in a plastic bag after a panic-stricken call from her son.
The victim denied a suggestion by Mr Roberts that he met him through drugs. He had never met Parry before, the man insisted in evidence. "I didn't think I was coming back alive," the witness added.
Mr Roberts asked: "Were you perhaps part of this plan?"
The witness: "Why would you rob your own family and business?"
The trial continues.
