STV 20 November 2012 14:44 GMT
Trial of Kyle Montgomery accused by Scottish Police of the Murder of Australian/Scottish Journalist Thomas Allwood being held in the Livingston Court, Scotland started 19th November, 2012 before Lord Doherty
Urgent Attention:
George Thompson Tel: 0776584775503, Email: "George Thomson" <gtcriminv@yahoo.co.uk>
Public defender's Solicitor: Gillian Taylor : 07920 085 400 Email: "Gillian Taylor" <gtaylor@pdso.org.uk>
Public Defenders Office, Edinburgh, PDSO Edinburgh, 50 St Mary's Street
Edinburgh EH1 1SX, Call free on 0800 328 1222
Tel: 0131 557 1222, Fax: 0131 557 2212, Email: "Scottish Public Defenders Office" <Edinburgh@pdso.org.uk>
Further report of the NYT's Investigation Team into the murder of Thomas Graham Allwood darted the 21st November 2012
Yes, that is the real question....Did Robert Montgomery see the blood on the knife? and put the knife back in the cutlery drawer with the blood still on it or did Robert Montgomery clean the knife before putting it back in the cutlery drawer . In either case Robert Montgomery should have been arrested for conspiracy to murder Thomas Allwood.....Yes the evidence of Robert Montgomery has obviously been well rehearsed.... but by who and with whom.. You see Robert Montgomery is a prosecution witness not a defence witness....
In fact one of the main prosecution witnesses...along with the boy Ryan and his girl friend Tina Borst....who said on the topix.com website that it was Ryan (she says is her partner) and his two male friends that found G's body at 4.45am on the 21st July 2012 and Ryan did the right thing and took the police to ID Kyle Montgomery as the murderer a short time after the police arrived to the scene where the body was found in the street...
This means that the prosecution and the Scottish Police would have taken a statement from John Montgomery and or helped him write and/or massage Robert Montgomery's statement as they often do with prosecution witnesses...even if they did not help write or massage the statement of Robert Montgomery... which they will never admit they either helped write and/or massage Robert Montgomery's statement.... the police and the prosecution would undeniably have known exactly what Robert Montgomery was going to say on the witness stand and what any other of their prosecution witnesses were going to say on the witness stand because that is how criminal trial work...the police and the prosecution go around getting written statements from people that may know something about what happened that night and if what they have to say has some bearing on a possible guilty verdict and/or helps the court and the jury understand the background of what happened an an attempt to get tot he truth of what happened that night and maybe previously if there is some suspicion that the murder was planed in any way.. as it looks like it clearly was by Robert Montgomery and Margaret Sheddon (Galloway) ...then the the police and the prosecution would have known that Robert Montgomery was going to give evidence that was enough on his own statement to have Robert Montgomery charged with conspiracy to murder G and/or an accessory after the fact and/or at the very minimum helping Thomas Allwood to die by not immediately ringing the police and an ambulance the minute that his son Klyle Montgomery came back in to the house with the bread knife with blood on it... Robert Montgomery admits she saw the blood.....and took the knife from the Kyle Montgomery and put is back in the draw...
It seems he has not said if he cleaned the knife before he put it back in the draw..it seems rather odd that the prosecution and/or defence counsel have not asked him that question
Did you clean the knife of the blood before putting the knife back in the draw?
This indicates both the prosecution counsel and the defence counsel are conspiring to hide the whole truth and by not asking that question is absolutely wrong and an attempt to protect Robert Montgomery and maybe others who it could be seen that have been involved in a conspiracy to murder Thomas Allwood...
Then the Lord Doherty should have stepped in and ask that question
That is what judges are meant to do when they feel all the right and important questions are not been asked of the witnesses by the prosecution and the defence...
this shows the Judge is not doing his job properly and seems to be in the club with the police, the prosecution and the defence counsel to help cover up the truth... If the time of around 2-2.15 am is right when the Kyle was meant to have stabbed Thomas Allwood
(It seems in the back garden... as Robert Montgomery says on first occasions Robert Montgomery told Thomas Allwood to get out and Thomas Allwood went out the back door and then came back in 10 minutes later.. and the second time Robert Allwood says it was Kyle Montgomery that pushed Thomas Allwood he said into the garden...."Kyle got up, pushed me out of the way and pushed him out into the back garden...So Thomas Allwood ends up in the back garden not on the street just wondering around where he could simply run away to your place as your place was not far away...that is what Thomas Allwood would have done if he was pushed out onto the street.....It is well known to Thomas Allwood's freinds that Thomas Allwood can not stand tension and if there is an argument or fight or hint of a fight...then he will simply run away to a friends house ...and your house was very close....there is no way he would have kept trying to get back into Robert Montgomery's house....after being told to leave in these sort of circumstances...However if a Robert Montgomery states that on both occasion Thomas Allwood ended up in the back garden as a result of going out the back door.. in all these houses as far as I am aware the back gardens are all enclosed and no back gate etc so Thomas Allwood would have been trapped in the back garden by, Robert Montgomery, Kyle Montgomery, Margaret Sheddon (Galloway) and who ever else was in the house that night as part of the murder plan.. it sounds like from the evidence of the neighbour that a person quietly left the house without slamming the door (which is always slammed on all previous occasions) about 3.15 am and it is likely that was the person who actually was the murderer who killed Thomas Allwood with one single knife wound which on speaking to a Scottish Doctor... this is only possible in normal circumstances to be done with one single knife would by a trained doctor who knows the body very well or a trained assassin.... more likely a trained assassin from MI5 M!6 or Mossad working for the British Government and others who wanted INL News Investigative Journalist dead because he was in the process of exposing serious corruption and wrong activities by very powerful people including David Cameron the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom whom Thomas Allwood was suing for £500 million in damages and demanding that Prime Minister David Cameron and his treasury Solicitors be locked up for criminal contempt
Robert Montgomery admits Thomas Allwood was in the back yard and went out the back door not the front door.....and they they all knew this and knew when Kyle Montgomery was meant to have grabbed the knife he would have gone out to the back yard
'...where Thomas Allwood was waiting like a lamb for the slaughter....'
This is what a jopurnlisdy friend of Thomas Allwood stated this morning in an email to NYT.bz
after reading the STV report of the trial
Thanks for report......
seeing Thomas Allwood's photo made me cry.,.....
It is so unfair that those drunken no mark shits and those bitches treated Thomas Allwood like that.......if he only had soft drinks...... surely Thomas Allwood would have called out or fought back if that Kyle Montgomery was drunk.
I see the father Robert Montomery didn't even give a toss and just went to sleep.
What an ignorant bastard.
I hope God rots them from the inside out an they die a horrible death.
Yes, this Margaret Sheddon (Galloway)
loved him so much.....but couldn't so much as look for him or care what was.happening.
Margaret Sheddon (Galloway)
should own up to her part in it.
those who butchered Thomas Allwood will suffer all right with divine.justice.
Hi..
I had another look at the report,as a bit tired when I read it an upset.none of it adds up.....Thomas Allwood wasn't drunk and was going back to oz,so he was probably feeling at ease.he wouldn't have fought and strangled.someone over thisMargaret Sheddon (Galloway) person if he was leaving her,and anyhow he seemed a person who would accept that she wasn't decent an let go.
If this Kyle Montgomery was 'sensitive and afraid' why didn't he call police about so called threats?
why go for a knife and.kill someone and risk life imprisonment.....
wouldn't a father, Robert Montgomery try to stop Kyle Montgomery from trying to attack Thomas Allwood with a knife and why didn't the father..Robert Montgomery and/or the son Kyle Montopmery and/or Margaret Sheddon (Galloway) call police.....
Could this Margaret Sheddon (Galloway)have been in another relationship -with them-and was using Thomas Allwood.
If he mentioned he had property and money.
Also was the father is a drunk... what is his past......is he an unreliable witness.....seems to be hinting self defence.....only those creatures no the truth.... I wish Thomas Allwood had been more discriminating an streetwise..
prosecution seems to be weak and/or suspect.... it all seems very odd.....
I phoned Scottish police,asked if Kyle's father, Robert Montgomery is being charged as accessory after fact,an said to the police officer that Thomas Allwood is very kind person who would help anyone. The copper wouldn't discuss,said he is giving evidence today in court and says call him after case over......
Sounds like the father has been well rehearsed by the prosecution and the police in what to say....
Seems to contradict what the barmaid said that they were fighting at 3 to 3.30 am although maybe
Margaret Shedden ( Birth Name Galloway) was undoubtedly completely drunk but must have been involved some time.
The defense or the prosecution will have make her testify.
Could be that Margaret Shedden ( Birth Name Galloway) urged Thomas Allwood on.
Rather out of character for Thomas Allwood...
The real question is did Mr. Robert Montgomery senior see the blood on the knife and put the knife back
in the cutlery drawer with the blood still on it or did he clean it.
In either case Kyle Montgomery's father, John Montgomery should have been arrested for conspiracy to murder UK Born INL News Investigative Journalist Thomas Allwood
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/201510-australian-visitor-died-in-the-street-after-being-stabbed-once/
Australian visitor died in the street after being stabbed in chest
STV 19 November 2012 17:24 GMT
Thomas Allwood: The 55-year-old was found dead in the street.
An Australian visitor to Scotland died in the street of the small town Broxburn one hours drive from Edinburgh, after being stabbed once with a knife.
On Monday, a jury was told Thomas Allwood's body was found in Broxburn, West Lothian, in the early hours of June 21 this year.
At the High Court at Livingston, the prosecution and defence agreed the cause of death was a single stab wound to the 55-year-old investigative journalist's chest.
Kyle Montgomery, 24, is on trial after pleading not guilty to murdering Mr Allwood.
Montgomery, from Winchburgh, West Lothian, denies assaulting the Mr Allwood on various occasions on the night he died, repeatedly punching him on the head and body, pursuing him with a knife and striking him on the body with a knife.
The attacks are alleged to have happened in Galloway Crescent, Clarkson Road and elsewhere in Broxburn.
Mr Allwood was found by members of the public lying in Pyothall Road, near Clarkson Road, at about 4:45am.
June Douglas, 44, who lives next door to Montgomery's father Robert in Galloway Crescent, said she saw the accused in the street at around 1pm on June 20 carrying a bag which she assumed contained alcohol.
A few minutes later she saw him at the door of his father's home trying to get in.
She told the court her neighbour was a known alcoholic and frequently caused a nuisance. In the early hours of the following morning she said she was startled by a loud bang on the wall of her bedroom just after 3am.
She said: "It was as if somebody was going to come through the wall. It gave me a start - I'd never heard anything like the bang. I just took it that they were fighting and banging off the walls. It was something that happened all the time."
Under cross examination by defence advocate Derek Ogg, Ms Douglas agreed Mr Montgomery's house was "used like a drinking den".
She added: "It was like living next door to a pub."
Her friend Christopher McDonald, 31, who was staying with her at the time, said loud music, banging and the sound of raised voices had continued long after Ms Douglas had gone to bed. He was also startled by the loud noise at around 3.15am.
He said: "The bang was the one thing that was out of the ordinary. I just assumed they were fighting again. The whole house shook."
He said he identified the sound of four voices in Mr Montgomery's one-bedroom maisonette that night. Things went quiet after the bang, then he said he heard someone leave by the back door.
He told the jury: "Someone went out quietly. The door was never closed quietly. What drew my attention was that it wasn't slammed. Later - after 5 0'clock - I heard really loud voices from the garden.
"I got really angry at that point. I pulled aside the curtain and I was ready to go mental, but the police were there."
Earlier barmaid Lisa Feenan, 30, said the accused's father Mr Montgomery had left the Badger's Brook pub in Broxburn just after 10pm on June 20 with a man she knew only as "the Australian".
She said Mr Montgomery had been drinking Guinness in the bar for an hour and a half but the Australian visitor, who was with a woman she knew as Margaret, had only taken soft drinks.
In a joint minute of agreement read to the jury, the Crown produced technical evidence, including records of mobile phone calls by the accused, his father Robert and Tina Borst.
CCTV footage from cameras in Broxburn Main Street and the Badger's Brook pub was lodged as evidence along with a recording of a 999 call made by witness James McMillan on the morning of the incident.
A till receipt for cigarettes and a lighter from the Costcutter store at Fairfield Service Station along with CCTV film captured just before 5am have also been lodged.
The trial, before Lord Doherty, continues.
Thomas Allwood was invited back from the pub by Robert Montgomery
By VIC RODRICK
Published on Wednesday 21 November 2012 11:16
A DAD has told a murder trial that an Australian journalist he invited home from the pub tried to strangle his son on the living room floor in a row over a woman.
Robert Montgomery threw the man out of his home, but said his son, Kyle, followed the visitor armed with a bread knife. He returned a short time later with the blade stained with blood, the High Court at Livingston was told yesterday.
Kyle Montgomery, 24, denies murdering Australian journalist Thomas Allwood, 55, on June 21. Montgomery, from Winchburgh, West Lothian, denies assaulting the deceased, repeatedly punching him on the head and body, pursuing him with a knife and striking him on the body with a knife.
Dad Robert, 65, a self-confessed alcoholic, told how he befriended the murder victim and his girlfriend, Maggie, in a pub near his home in Broxburn and invited them to his house for a drink.
When they got there, Mr Montgomery said, Maggie sat beside the accused while Mr Montgomery and the Australian talked on another couch.
He said he felt uncomfortable because he thought the woman, who was in her 40s, was behaving “inappropriately” towards his son, rubbing his hand and putting her head in his lap.
He said he asked Mr Allwood: “Are you going to do something about that?” and he responded: “He can have her.”
Mr Montgomery went upstairs to the toilet at around 2am and returned a few minutes later to find his son pinned to the floor by Mr Allwood. He said the Australian had his foot on the younger man’s chest and both hands clamped around his neck, “strangling him”.
He told the jury: “I could see the fear in Kyle’s eyes. I told him [Allwood] to get off and he ran out the back door.
“He came back about ten minutes later. He was banging on the back door real loud. I opened it and he tried to come through the door like a raging bull, going for Kyle.
“Kyle got up, pushed me out of the way and pushed him out into the back garden.”
Mr Montgomery said that a few minutes later his son also left the house, but returned shortly afterwards, and grabbed a bread knife.
He said he didn’t hear or see anything happening outside because he remained inside on the sofa.
Advocate depute Martin Macari asked him: “What’s the next thing you remember happening?”
He replied: “Him [Kyle] coming back in again about five minutes later. There was blood on the knife.”
He said he took the knife from his son and put it back in the cutlery drawer.
Under cross-examination, Mr Montgomery confirmed that he had told police that the Australian man had said something like “I’ll kill him” as he was throttling the accused.
He added: “Kyle was scared and wasn’t fighting back.”
Mr Montgomery said his son had been treated for depression after being bullied at school for having an English accent.
The trial continues.
Community's shock over man's death
Jun 28 2012 by Marjorie Kerr, West Lothian Courier
A COMMUNITY have spoken of their shock after a man was found dead in their street.
Thomas Graham Allwood (55) from Broxburn was found dead in the town’s Pyothall Road at around 4.45am on Thursday (June 21).
And residents in the quiet street said they were shocked and saddened to hear about the incident.
One woman whose home overlooks the area where Thomas’ body was discovered said she was upset to hear what had happened.
She said: “I didn’t hear a thing during the night but it’s shocking to think this has happened here.
“This is far too close to home for my liking.
“Pyothall Road is a normally quiet area.
“On a Saturday night around here you can just about hear a pin drop.
“The only people you really see are dog walkers.
“Nothing like this has happened round here before so it’s quite upsetting.
“I had to go and pick my kids up from school because they were too scared to walk home.”
Another man who lives in the area said he was shaken when he heard about the incident in the street.
He said: “We had the window open during the night and I would have thought we would have heard something.
“The first we knew about it was when the police arrived.
“It’s a terrible shock to think this has happened on our own doorstep.”
A man has appeared in court charged with murder following the death of Thomas Allwood.
Kyle Montgomery (24) of Winchburgh, appeared at Livingston Sheriff Court on Monday.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
Trial of Kyle Montgomery accused by Scottish Police of the Murder of Australian/Scottish Journalist Thomas Allwood being held in the Livingston Court, Scotland started 19th November, 2012 before Lord Doherty
Urgent Attention:
George Thompson Tel: 0776584775503, Email: "George Thomson" <gtcriminv@yahoo.co.uk>
Public defender's Solicitor: Gillian Taylor : 07920 085 400 Email: "Gillian Taylor" <gtaylor@pdso.org.uk>
Public Defenders Office, Edinburgh, PDSO Edinburgh, 50 St Mary's Street
Edinburgh EH1 1SX, Call free on 0800 328 1222
Tel: 0131 557 1222, Fax: 0131 557 2212, Email: "Scottish Public Defenders Office" <Edinburgh@pdso.org.uk>
Further report of the NYT's Investigation Team into the murder of Thomas Graham Allwood darted the 21st November 2012
Yes, that is the real question....Did Robert Montgomery see the blood on the knife? and put the knife back in the cutlery drawer with the blood still on it or did Robert Montgomery clean the knife before putting it back in the cutlery drawer . In either case Robert Montgomery should have been arrested for conspiracy to murder Thomas Allwood.....Yes the evidence of Robert Montgomery has obviously been well rehearsed.... but by who and with whom.. You see Robert Montgomery is a prosecution witness not a defence witness....
In fact one of the main prosecution witnesses...along with the boy Ryan and his girl friend Tina Borst....who said on the topix.com website that it was Ryan (she says is her partner) and his two male friends that found G's body at 4.45am on the 21st July 2012 and Ryan did the right thing and took the police to ID Kyle Montgomery as the murderer a short time after the police arrived to the scene where the body was found in the street...
This means that the prosecution and the Scottish Police would have taken a statement from John Montgomery and or helped him write and/or massage Robert Montgomery's statement as they often do with prosecution witnesses...even if they did not help write or massage the statement of Robert Montgomery... which they will never admit they either helped write and/or massage Robert Montgomery's statement.... the police and the prosecution would undeniably have known exactly what Robert Montgomery was going to say on the witness stand and what any other of their prosecution witnesses were going to say on the witness stand because that is how criminal trial work...the police and the prosecution go around getting written statements from people that may know something about what happened that night and if what they have to say has some bearing on a possible guilty verdict and/or helps the court and the jury understand the background of what happened an an attempt to get tot he truth of what happened that night and maybe previously if there is some suspicion that the murder was planed in any way.. as it looks like it clearly was by Robert Montgomery and Margaret Sheddon (Galloway) ...then the the police and the prosecution would have known that Robert Montgomery was going to give evidence that was enough on his own statement to have Robert Montgomery charged with conspiracy to murder G and/or an accessory after the fact and/or at the very minimum helping Thomas Allwood to die by not immediately ringing the police and an ambulance the minute that his son Klyle Montgomery came back in to the house with the bread knife with blood on it... Robert Montgomery admits she saw the blood.....and took the knife from the Kyle Montgomery and put is back in the draw...
It seems he has not said if he cleaned the knife before he put it back in the draw..it seems rather odd that the prosecution and/or defence counsel have not asked him that question
Did you clean the knife of the blood before putting the knife back in the draw?
This indicates both the prosecution counsel and the defence counsel are conspiring to hide the whole truth and by not asking that question is absolutely wrong and an attempt to protect Robert Montgomery and maybe others who it could be seen that have been involved in a conspiracy to murder Thomas Allwood...
Then the Lord Doherty should have stepped in and ask that question
That is what judges are meant to do when they feel all the right and important questions are not been asked of the witnesses by the prosecution and the defence...
this shows the Judge is not doing his job properly and seems to be in the club with the police, the prosecution and the defence counsel to help cover up the truth... If the time of around 2-2.15 am is right when the Kyle was meant to have stabbed Thomas Allwood
(It seems in the back garden... as Robert Montgomery says on first occasions Robert Montgomery told Thomas Allwood to get out and Thomas Allwood went out the back door and then came back in 10 minutes later.. and the second time Robert Allwood says it was Kyle Montgomery that pushed Thomas Allwood he said into the garden...."Kyle got up, pushed me out of the way and pushed him out into the back garden...So Thomas Allwood ends up in the back garden not on the street just wondering around where he could simply run away to your place as your place was not far away...that is what Thomas Allwood would have done if he was pushed out onto the street.....It is well known to Thomas Allwood's freinds that Thomas Allwood can not stand tension and if there is an argument or fight or hint of a fight...then he will simply run away to a friends house ...and your house was very close....there is no way he would have kept trying to get back into Robert Montgomery's house....after being told to leave in these sort of circumstances...However if a Robert Montgomery states that on both occasion Thomas Allwood ended up in the back garden as a result of going out the back door.. in all these houses as far as I am aware the back gardens are all enclosed and no back gate etc so Thomas Allwood would have been trapped in the back garden by, Robert Montgomery, Kyle Montgomery, Margaret Sheddon (Galloway) and who ever else was in the house that night as part of the murder plan.. it sounds like from the evidence of the neighbour that a person quietly left the house without slamming the door (which is always slammed on all previous occasions) about 3.15 am and it is likely that was the person who actually was the murderer who killed Thomas Allwood with one single knife wound which on speaking to a Scottish Doctor... this is only possible in normal circumstances to be done with one single knife would by a trained doctor who knows the body very well or a trained assassin.... more likely a trained assassin from MI5 M!6 or Mossad working for the British Government and others who wanted INL News Investigative Journalist dead because he was in the process of exposing serious corruption and wrong activities by very powerful people including David Cameron the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom whom Thomas Allwood was suing for £500 million in damages and demanding that Prime Minister David Cameron and his treasury Solicitors be locked up for criminal contempt
Robert Montgomery admits Thomas Allwood was in the back yard and went out the back door not the front door.....and they they all knew this and knew when Kyle Montgomery was meant to have grabbed the knife he would have gone out to the back yard
'...where Thomas Allwood was waiting like a lamb for the slaughter....'
This is what a jopurnlisdy friend of Thomas Allwood stated this morning in an email to NYT.bz
after reading the STV report of the trial
Thanks for report......
seeing Thomas Allwood's photo made me cry.,.....
It is so unfair that those drunken no mark shits and those bitches treated Thomas Allwood like that.......if he only had soft drinks...... surely Thomas Allwood would have called out or fought back if that Kyle Montgomery was drunk.
I see the father Robert Montomery didn't even give a toss and just went to sleep.
What an ignorant bastard.
I hope God rots them from the inside out an they die a horrible death.
Yes, this Margaret Sheddon (Galloway)
loved him so much.....but couldn't so much as look for him or care what was.happening.
Margaret Sheddon (Galloway)
should own up to her part in it.
those who butchered Thomas Allwood will suffer all right with divine.justice.
Hi..
I had another look at the report,as a bit tired when I read it an upset.none of it adds up.....Thomas Allwood wasn't drunk and was going back to oz,so he was probably feeling at ease.he wouldn't have fought and strangled.someone over thisMargaret Sheddon (Galloway) person if he was leaving her,and anyhow he seemed a person who would accept that she wasn't decent an let go.
If this Kyle Montgomery was 'sensitive and afraid' why didn't he call police about so called threats?
why go for a knife and.kill someone and risk life imprisonment.....
wouldn't a father, Robert Montgomery try to stop Kyle Montgomery from trying to attack Thomas Allwood with a knife and why didn't the father..Robert Montgomery and/or the son Kyle Montopmery and/or Margaret Sheddon (Galloway) call police.....
Could this Margaret Sheddon (Galloway)have been in another relationship -with them-and was using Thomas Allwood.
If he mentioned he had property and money.
Also was the father is a drunk... what is his past......is he an unreliable witness.....seems to be hinting self defence.....only those creatures no the truth.... I wish Thomas Allwood had been more discriminating an streetwise..
prosecution seems to be weak and/or suspect.... it all seems very odd.....
I phoned Scottish police,asked if Kyle's father, Robert Montgomery is being charged as accessory after fact,an said to the police officer that Thomas Allwood is very kind person who would help anyone. The copper wouldn't discuss,said he is giving evidence today in court and says call him after case over......
Sounds like the father has been well rehearsed by the prosecution and the police in what to say....
Seems to contradict what the barmaid said that they were fighting at 3 to 3.30 am although maybe
Margaret Shedden ( Birth Name Galloway) was undoubtedly completely drunk but must have been involved some time.
The defense or the prosecution will have make her testify.
Could be that Margaret Shedden ( Birth Name Galloway) urged Thomas Allwood on.
Rather out of character for Thomas Allwood...
The real question is did Mr. Robert Montgomery senior see the blood on the knife and put the knife back
in the cutlery drawer with the blood still on it or did he clean it.
In either case Kyle Montgomery's father, John Montgomery should have been arrested for conspiracy to murder UK Born INL News Investigative Journalist Thomas Allwood
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/201510-australian-visitor-died-in-the-street-after-being-stabbed-once/
Australian visitor died in the street after being stabbed in chest
STV 19 November 2012 17:24 GMT
Thomas Allwood: The 55-year-old was found dead in the street.
An Australian visitor to Scotland died in the street of the small town Broxburn one hours drive from Edinburgh, after being stabbed once with a knife.
On Monday, a jury was told Thomas Allwood's body was found in Broxburn, West Lothian, in the early hours of June 21 this year.
At the High Court at Livingston, the prosecution and defence agreed the cause of death was a single stab wound to the 55-year-old investigative journalist's chest.
Kyle Montgomery, 24, is on trial after pleading not guilty to murdering Mr Allwood.
Montgomery, from Winchburgh, West Lothian, denies assaulting the Mr Allwood on various occasions on the night he died, repeatedly punching him on the head and body, pursuing him with a knife and striking him on the body with a knife.
The attacks are alleged to have happened in Galloway Crescent, Clarkson Road and elsewhere in Broxburn.
Mr Allwood was found by members of the public lying in Pyothall Road, near Clarkson Road, at about 4:45am.
June Douglas, 44, who lives next door to Montgomery's father Robert in Galloway Crescent, said she saw the accused in the street at around 1pm on June 20 carrying a bag which she assumed contained alcohol.
A few minutes later she saw him at the door of his father's home trying to get in.
She told the court her neighbour was a known alcoholic and frequently caused a nuisance. In the early hours of the following morning she said she was startled by a loud bang on the wall of her bedroom just after 3am.
She said: "It was as if somebody was going to come through the wall. It gave me a start - I'd never heard anything like the bang. I just took it that they were fighting and banging off the walls. It was something that happened all the time."
Under cross examination by defence advocate Derek Ogg, Ms Douglas agreed Mr Montgomery's house was "used like a drinking den".
She added: "It was like living next door to a pub."
Her friend Christopher McDonald, 31, who was staying with her at the time, said loud music, banging and the sound of raised voices had continued long after Ms Douglas had gone to bed. He was also startled by the loud noise at around 3.15am.
He said: "The bang was the one thing that was out of the ordinary. I just assumed they were fighting again. The whole house shook."
He said he identified the sound of four voices in Mr Montgomery's one-bedroom maisonette that night. Things went quiet after the bang, then he said he heard someone leave by the back door.
He told the jury: "Someone went out quietly. The door was never closed quietly. What drew my attention was that it wasn't slammed. Later - after 5 0'clock - I heard really loud voices from the garden.
"I got really angry at that point. I pulled aside the curtain and I was ready to go mental, but the police were there."
Earlier barmaid Lisa Feenan, 30, said the accused's father Mr Montgomery had left the Badger's Brook pub in Broxburn just after 10pm on June 20 with a man she knew only as "the Australian".
She said Mr Montgomery had been drinking Guinness in the bar for an hour and a half but the Australian visitor, who was with a woman she knew as Margaret, had only taken soft drinks.
In a joint minute of agreement read to the jury, the Crown produced technical evidence, including records of mobile phone calls by the accused, his father Robert and Tina Borst.
CCTV footage from cameras in Broxburn Main Street and the Badger's Brook pub was lodged as evidence along with a recording of a 999 call made by witness James McMillan on the morning of the incident.
A till receipt for cigarettes and a lighter from the Costcutter store at Fairfield Service Station along with CCTV film captured just before 5am have also been lodged.
The trial, before Lord Doherty, continues.
Thomas Allwood was invited back from the pub by Robert Montgomery
By VIC RODRICK
Published on Wednesday 21 November 2012 11:16
A DAD has told a murder trial that an Australian journalist he invited home from the pub tried to strangle his son on the living room floor in a row over a woman.
Robert Montgomery threw the man out of his home, but said his son, Kyle, followed the visitor armed with a bread knife. He returned a short time later with the blade stained with blood, the High Court at Livingston was told yesterday.
Kyle Montgomery, 24, denies murdering Australian journalist Thomas Allwood, 55, on June 21. Montgomery, from Winchburgh, West Lothian, denies assaulting the deceased, repeatedly punching him on the head and body, pursuing him with a knife and striking him on the body with a knife.
Dad Robert, 65, a self-confessed alcoholic, told how he befriended the murder victim and his girlfriend, Maggie, in a pub near his home in Broxburn and invited them to his house for a drink.
When they got there, Mr Montgomery said, Maggie sat beside the accused while Mr Montgomery and the Australian talked on another couch.
He said he felt uncomfortable because he thought the woman, who was in her 40s, was behaving “inappropriately” towards his son, rubbing his hand and putting her head in his lap.
He said he asked Mr Allwood: “Are you going to do something about that?” and he responded: “He can have her.”
Mr Montgomery went upstairs to the toilet at around 2am and returned a few minutes later to find his son pinned to the floor by Mr Allwood. He said the Australian had his foot on the younger man’s chest and both hands clamped around his neck, “strangling him”.
He told the jury: “I could see the fear in Kyle’s eyes. I told him [Allwood] to get off and he ran out the back door.
“He came back about ten minutes later. He was banging on the back door real loud. I opened it and he tried to come through the door like a raging bull, going for Kyle.
“Kyle got up, pushed me out of the way and pushed him out into the back garden.”
Mr Montgomery said that a few minutes later his son also left the house, but returned shortly afterwards, and grabbed a bread knife.
He said he didn’t hear or see anything happening outside because he remained inside on the sofa.
Advocate depute Martin Macari asked him: “What’s the next thing you remember happening?”
He replied: “Him [Kyle] coming back in again about five minutes later. There was blood on the knife.”
He said he took the knife from his son and put it back in the cutlery drawer.
Under cross-examination, Mr Montgomery confirmed that he had told police that the Australian man had said something like “I’ll kill him” as he was throttling the accused.
He added: “Kyle was scared and wasn’t fighting back.”
Mr Montgomery said his son had been treated for depression after being bullied at school for having an English accent.
The trial continues.
Community's shock over man's death
Jun 28 2012 by Marjorie Kerr, West Lothian Courier
A COMMUNITY have spoken of their shock after a man was found dead in their street.
Thomas Graham Allwood (55) from Broxburn was found dead in the town’s Pyothall Road at around 4.45am on Thursday (June 21).
And residents in the quiet street said they were shocked and saddened to hear about the incident.
One woman whose home overlooks the area where Thomas’ body was discovered said she was upset to hear what had happened.
She said: “I didn’t hear a thing during the night but it’s shocking to think this has happened here.
“This is far too close to home for my liking.
“Pyothall Road is a normally quiet area.
“On a Saturday night around here you can just about hear a pin drop.
“The only people you really see are dog walkers.
“Nothing like this has happened round here before so it’s quite upsetting.
“I had to go and pick my kids up from school because they were too scared to walk home.”
Another man who lives in the area said he was shaken when he heard about the incident in the street.
He said: “We had the window open during the night and I would have thought we would have heard something.
“The first we knew about it was when the police arrived.
“It’s a terrible shock to think this has happened on our own doorstep.”
A man has appeared in court charged with murder following the death of Thomas Allwood.
Kyle Montgomery (24) of Winchburgh, appeared at Livingston Sheriff Court on Monday.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
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Community's shock over man's death
Jun 28 2012 by Marjorie Kerr, West Lothian Courier
A COMMUNITY have spoken of their shock after a man was found dead in their street.
Thomas Graham Allwood (55) from Broxburn was found dead in the town’s Pyothall Road at around 4.45am on Thursday (June 21).
And residents in the quiet street said they were shocked and saddened to hear about the incident.
One woman whose home overlooks the area where Thomas’ body was discovered said she was upset to hear what had happened.
She said: “I didn’t hear a thing during the night but it’s shocking to think this has happened here.
“This is far too close to home for my liking.
“Pyothall Road is a normally quiet area.
“On a Saturday night around here you can just about hear a pin drop.
“The only people you really see are dog walkers.
“Nothing like this has happened round here before so it’s quite upsetting.
“I had to go and pick my kids up from school because they were too scared to walk home.”
Another man who lives in the area said he was shaken when he heard about the incident in the street.
He said: “We had the window open during the night and I would have thought we would have heard something.
“The first we knew about it was when the police arrived.
“It’s a terrible shock to think this has happened on our own doorstep.”
A man has appeared in court charged with murder following the death of Thomas Allwood.
Kyle Montgomery (24) of Winchburgh, appeared at Livingston Sheriff Court on Monday.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
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John Massey convicted murderer was quickly found and arrested a few hours after the AWN News article was published stating that after the murder of INL News Investigative Journalist Thomas Allwood... it was not safe for any other staff member of the INL News Group who have arrived in the UK to investigate the murder of Thomas Graham Allwood.......until Thomas Massey was placed back in a maximum security prison... a source inside the UK Prison Department who was upset what was going tipped off the INL News Group investigators that John Massey was quietly allowed out of prison for the evening on Wednesday the 20th June and back in prison in time for breakfast..with everyone not even knowing he had been out for the night... during that time Thomas Allwood is murdered and then John Massey is allowed to escape officially this time.... had the INL and AWN News Report not been published demanding that John Massey be immediately returned to prison ... and an inquiry into how he could have escaped that easily be announced.....then more than likely John Massey would still be at large... in the end it was just too publicly embarrassing for the Prime Minister David Cameron and the UK Government not to immediately re-arrest John Massey... the question remains is: How was it that the Police found out where John Massey was that easily... the INL and AWN News Investigators are informed from a reliable source that someone in the UK Prison Department knew all the time where John Massey was and that they were organising for John Massey to escape to Spain again... however the plan was called off when a call from David Cameron's office came through... "you dam well find Massey today and put him back in prison... if not heads are going to role because this will become a massive international incident and with the London 2012 Olympics coming up it may become the end of my career as Prime Minister of Britain..."
29 June 2012
Escaped murderer John Massey captured in Kent after INL News Demands that they immediately arrest John Massey and call an inquiry into John Massey's escape....no convicted murderer should be able to escape a maximum security prison that easily..
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Convicted murderer John Massey, who escaped from Pentonville prison in north London on Wednesday has been arrested in Kent, police have said.
Massey, 64, was arrested at an address in Faversham at 17:15 BST following "an intelligence-led operation," a Metropolitan Police statement said.
He has been taken into custody at a north London police station.
It is thought Massey hid in the prison gym and went onto the roof before scaling the wall using netting.
A second man at the Faversham address was arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting an absconder and was also taken into police custody, Scotland Yard added.
Massey - serving life for a 1975 pub murder - was reported missing at 18:30 BST on Wednesday. It is thought he used discarded netting, which may have been used for a sports activity, to fashion the makeshift rope.
The Ministry of Justice has launched an investigation into the escape. Massey - one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners - was convicted of shooting dead a man with a sawn-off shotgun at The Cricketers in Clapton, east London.
The BBC News website understands that Massey had previously escaped from Coldingley prison in Surrey in April 1994, and was subsequently reported to be living in Spain before being returned to prison. Massey was released on parole in June 2007 - after spending the previous 18 months in an open prison in Derbyshire - and ordered to live in a bail hostel in Streatham, south London. But he broke his curfew after a few months to go and live with his dying father and, after a number of days, was recalled to prison. After two-and-half years, he was sent to Ford open prison, in West Sussex, from where he absconded. He was arrested 10 months later and taken to Pentonville before Wednesday's escape.
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is ignoring a Metropolitan Police order to surrender himself at a police station, his representative has said.
Susan Benn said he was advised to "decline to comply" and will remain inside the Ecuadorian embassy while his application for asylum is processed.
Officers from the Met's extradition unit delivered a note to Mr Assange at the London embassy on Thursday.
He wants to avoid being sent to Sweden to face rape and assault accusations.
The police letter required that the 40-year-old surrender himself to Belgravia police station at 11:30 BST on Friday.
Under international diplomatic arrangements, the police cannot go into the embassy to arrest Mr Assange.
Life and libertyIn a statement, Ms Benn, a committee member of Mr Assange's defence fund, said: "This should not be considered any sign of disrespect. Under both international and domestic UK law asylum assessments take priority over extradition claims.
"The issues faced by Mr Assange are serious. His life and liberty and the life and liberty of his organisation and those associated with it are at stake."
The Wikileaks website published a mass of leaked diplomatic cables that embarrassed several governments and international businesses.
Mr Assange fears that if he is sent to Sweden he could be sent on to the United States to face charges over Wikileaks and that there, he could face the death penalty.
Ms Benn said it was "only a matter of time" before US authorities begin extradition proceedings against him.
She said: "Mr Assange did not feel safe from US extradition in the UK. We are all too aware of the abuses of the US-UK extradition treaty. Although Mr Assange has been trapped in the UK under dangerous circumstances, he has at least had the freedom to apply for political asylum.
"It is in this context that Julian has made the difficult decision to seek refuge inside the Ecuadorian embassy to ask for asylum. Julian will remain in the embassy under the protection of the Ecuadorian government while evidence for his application is being assembled and processed."
Mr Assange, whose bail conditions include staying at a named address between 22:00 and 08:00 BST, arrived at the embassy in Knightsbridge on 19 June.
A 24 year old Scottish male, Kyle Montgomery has appeared in the Livingston Magistrates court on Monday 25th June, 2012 charged with murder following the death of a 56-year-old Thomas Allwood in West Lothian last week. The court was closed to the public so the Scottish Police and Crown Prosecutors Office, called the Procurator Fiscal in Scotland's Court System, could cover up details of the arrest and investigation into the murder of
56 year old Thomas Allwood and the arrest of
24 year old Kyle Montgomery on a charge of murdering
Thomas Allwood
from being made public.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs has written a condolence letter and offering Australian Government Assistance to Thomas Allwood's fiance Wynter Young who lives in Australia and is not well enough to travel to Scotland for the funeral of Thomas Allwood.
Ms Winter Young
Dear Ms Young
I write to express my condolences for the death of your fiance, Mr Thomas Graham Allwood.
For family and friends, the death of a loved one in any circumstance causes immense feelings of loss and sorrow. Where the death occurs overseas, there can often be additional complications in organising the funeral, repatriation and other arrangements.
This letter will explain the assistance which this department and our High Commission in London is able to provide to you during this difficult time. It is important to understand that you should appoint a funeral director in both Scotland and in Australia to carry out your wishes with respect to Allwood’s funeral arrangements and returning Mr Allwood to Australia. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and our consular staff overseas can help with overseas arrangements by liaising with the funeral directors on your behalf and in accordance with your wishes.
Please contact us if there are any aspects of the arrangements about which you are uncertain or if you require any further assistance.
Yours sincerely
Lorena López de Herd
Consular Operations Branch
Telephone: 1300 555 135 (use option “6”) ....."
Livingstone Magistrates Court, Scotland, UK, where Kyle Montgomery was formerly charged with the murder of INL News Reporter Thomas Allwood
The INL News Group's head investigator has made a comment that he expects that the murder will be white washed in the end so that no one will be found guilty of the murder of Thomas Allwood which in the end will be covered up by falsely making out that the murder was just an unfortunate tragedy that happened as a result of Thomas Allwood trying to stop a domestic dispute, which is reality very far from the truth. INL News Media Investigators are putting the pieces of the puzzle together and it is becoming more and more clear that Thomas Allwood's murder was a very deliberate and pre-planned murder all setup to make it look like a domestic dispute that got out of hand... Thomas Allwood was about to provide evidence to the Leveson Media Inquiry into illegal phone hacked, police bribery into corrupt and unhealthy links between senior powerful media executives and senior politicians as high up as David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and George Osborne, the Chancellor of the United Kingdom who are ready willing and able to do favours for powerful media owners and executives as as Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch and their senior media executive Rebeccah Brooks in return for positive publicity in their media outlets.....Thomas Allwood had issued a High Court Legal Action against David Cameron the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the United Kingdom, the UK Government and the UK Border Agency for 500 million pounds in damages for illegally and wrongfully arresting USA comedian Ronnie Prouty at Heathrow Airport in April, 2011 who had was flying from Los Angeles to Edinburgh as a favour for Thomas Allwood and the talented entertainers that perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival each year, for no payment to help host the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Shows Thomas Allwood and the INL News Group and other partnerswhere filming at the Caves in Edinburgh in April 2011. The reason why USA comedian Ronnie Prouty was illegally arrested and detained for 24 hours at Heathrow Airport and then flown in handcuffs the next day on his own return airticket back to Los Angeles, was to do a favour for Rupert and James Murdoch and their all powerful multi billion media group News Corporation and News International to commercial sabotage Thomas Allwood, and the INL News Group and partners' filming of their pilot Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show being filmed in the world famous Caves , Cowgate Edinburgh. Then when legal action was issued by Thomas Allwood, the INL News Group and partners for 500 million pounds in damages against David Cameron, the Prime Mininister of the United Kingdom, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the United Kingdom, the UK Border Agency and the UK Government for commercially sabotaging their pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show, the Defendants instructed attorneys Toby Spanton and Sarah Love on behalf of the UK Government to lodge a false and fraudulent statement in the High Court of Justice in London stating that Ronnie Prouty had stated to U #K Border Agency Staff that he had been paid $2,000 to host the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show, as a way of trying to have the claim struck out by the High Court. Ronnie Prouty has made a statement that he never stated to any UK Border Agency Staff or anyone else that he had been paid $2,000 and that is fact he had not been paid nay more whatsoever to come to Edinburgh to host the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show..Thomas Allwood then issued a further application in the High Court of Justice to listed to be heard on the 24th July, 2012 in court 10 at 10.30 am in the Rolls Building in Fetta Lane London to request the court to charge David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the UK, Government and Treasury Solicitors represented by Toby Spanton and Sarah Love for criminal contempt of court for deliberately and knowingly producing and presenting a false and fraudulent statement to the High Court of Justice as a way of trying to strike at claim for damages of 500 million pounds against them all... its is obvious that they had to move quickly to murder Thomas Allwood to make sure he could not appear in the High Court of the 24th July, 2012 and could not appear at the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking and police bribery involved Rupert and James Murdoch and their executives an other employees of News Corporation and News International....
Thomas Allwood was found by members of the public lying across Pyothall Road in Broxburn at about 04:45 on Thursday.
Kyle Montgomery, 24, of Winchburgh, appeared on petition on a charge of murdering Thomas Allwood at Livingston Sheriff Court at 2pm on the 25th June, 2012.
Kyle Montgomery made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody for further inquiries.