Defendant 'I found shot cabbie

A 61-YEAR-OLD man accused of murdering a taxi driver told police he found his body during a visit to a railway station.

Stuart Ludlam, from Darley Dale, was discovered in the back of his taxi by a passer-by at Cromford station in September last year.

The 43-year-old father-ofthree had two gunshot wounds to the head, the second believed to have been the one that killed him.

Colin Cheetham, from Ripley, denies murdering Mr Ludlam.

He said he discovered Mr Ludlam's body when he returned to the station to try and find a camera lens cloth he believed he had dropped there earlier.

In a police interview read out to a Nottingham Crown Court jury yesterday, Cheetham said he hermes birkin 30cm drove into the station and spotted Mr Ludlam's parked car with the driver's door open.

The interview was read out by Detective Constable Sharon Bassett and prosecutor Sarah Knight.

DC Bassett read the part of the interviewing officer, Miss Knight Cheetham's responses.

Miss Knight, as Cheetham, said: "I shouted something like 'hello, driver, can you shut your door please'. There was no answer.

I got out of the car, I moved forward to it.

"(I thought it was) Possibly an accident, a bang, and he has gone for help - that type of thing went through my mind.

"I could see a head in the back corner of the car. As I came round the corner I could see his right arm hanging out of the back of the window.

"I bally handbags could see blood, trails of blood running down the side of the tailgate."

Cheetham, of Waingroves Road, was asked by the interviewing officer what his reaction to the alleged discovery, on September 17, had been.

The defendant said he recalled a former colleague telling him about the time he found a body and was arrested and questioned about it.

Cheetham said he feared the same would happen to him if he contacted the police.

In interview, he said: "My mind was working overtime. It was still coming to me, don't get involved, it's not your problem, it's not your business. "I wanted to get help for him. I thought he was dead. I was fairly certain he was dead."

Cheetham told the interviewing officer he saw a wound on Mr Ludlam's head he thought was similar to a gunshot wound.

James Norseman, a crime scene manager with Derbyshire police, told the jury forensic scientists had not been able to see any visible wounds on Mr Ludlam body at first.

He said: "It was not until some stage later when we raised the boot of the vehicle and we were able to have a close examination of his head that we were directed towards some injuries to his head."

Prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said: "Until then, could you see he Fake Fashion Breguet Handbag had been shot?" Mr Norseman replied: "No." The trial continues.

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