Phones link couple to fleeing teen, jurors told

THE trial of five people accused of assisting the teenagers who murdered Bristol boys Max Dixon and Mason Rist has heard detailed mobile phone data evidence which the prosecution says shows a couple driving two of the boys from Bristol to Weston-super-Mare after they were involved in the attack

- TRISTAN CORK

The jury in the trial of Kristian Hooper, Jillian Tolliver, Marcus Williams, Dominic Smith and Ellie May Maddocks who all deny the charges they face has continued being taken through reams of mobile phone information provided by a police data analyst. The prosecution says that data links them to the journeys the four teenagers made out of Bristol in the day or two after the murders.

Max Dixon, 16, and Mason Rist, 15, were fatally stabbed outside Mason's home in Knowle West late in the evening of the last Saturday in January 2024. Four teenagers and a man were found guilty of both of their murders 10 months later.

The prosecution has alleged that the five on trial helped the teenagers who attacked Max and Mason leave Bristol and evade the police investigation following the double murder.

The focus of the prosecution on Tuesday was on two of the defendants in particular, Dominic Smith and Ellie May Maddocks.

The jury heard detailed evidence of the movements of three phones and a car registered to Maddocks on the afternoon of Monday, January 29, 2024.