- In short: A police interview from 2009 has been played to a jury in the Supreme Court trial of a Tasmanian couple alleged to have murdered 36-year-old Shane Barker
- What's next? The trial is continuing
A Tasmanian jury has been played a 2009 police interview with a man accused of shooting his son-in-law in which he tells police if he wanted to kill someone, he "would have done it during deer season".
Swansea couple, Noelene and Cedric Jordan are both on trial for the murder of 36-year-old Shane Barker.
They have both pleaded not guilty.
It is the Crown's case Mr Barker was shot three times in the back and once in the chest outside his Campbell Town house on August 2, 2009.
A police interview with Cedric Jordan conducted almost two months after Mr Barker was killed was played to the jury on Friday.
Mr Jordan is asked repeatedly where he was on the night Mr Barker was murdered, to which he replies he was at home with Ms Jordan.
He is heard to say in the interview he went shooting in the morning, got home in time for lunch, was exhausted so had a nap on the couch and was awoken by Ms Jordan around 4:45pm.
"She asked if I was coming with her to her father's place," he says in the interview. "We both went over and she did his pills."
The court heard Ms Jordan's father had dementia and required care. He lived roughly 3 kilometres away from them at the time.
Mr Jordan is then heard telling detectives the couple got home around 8:30pm, watched some television and then went to bed.
But after further questioning, Mr Jordan says they weren't home after all and went to Launceston for KFC instead.
"Are you sure that's the truth," he is asked in the interview.
"Yes," he replies.
"It puts you in Campbell Town right at the time of the murder," a detective informs him.
On Wednesday, the jury heard Ms Jordan's 2009 interview with police on the same day where she also changed her story and admitted they went to KFC for dinner.
She said in her interview that they didn't stop in Campbell Town and they made the plan to lie about where they were after attending Mr Barker's funeral.
The jury heard Ms Jordan's phone has pinged off several phone towers on the night of the murder between Swansea and Launceston.
At 4:45pm the phone was registered at Swansea, then at 7:12pm it bounced off a tower in Oakmont near Perth, Tasmania and then at 7:33pm it was in Youngtown, the jury was told on Wednesday.
In Mr Jordan's interview he also says if he wanted Mr Barker dead, he "would have done it during deer season".
"You didn't think you'd get caught, did you," he is asked in the police interview. "When it comes to rehearsing an alibi, you remember everything perfectly?"
Mr Jordan then replies that he only lied to avoid being questioned by police.
"We didn't want to be hassled, especially at our age," he says.
Mr Jordan was also asked whether he knew it was an offence to make a false Statutory Declaration, to which he answers "no".
"So you thought lying to police during a murder investigation was the right thing to do?" he is asked.
"Well, at the time, yes," he replies.
The trial continues.
