article_snippet: Mr Smith said Carr had wanted Penelope Davissilenced' because Mr Smith believed Penelope Davis would make an allegation to police that Mr Smith had indecently assaulted someone, a complaint Penelope Davis had previously made.
article_snippet: Mr Smith said: 'Why would Carr want Penelope Davis killed?
article_snippet: The answer to that question, which will remain at the heart of this trial, probably lies in the fact that Carr believed that Penelope Davis was going to go to the police, as Penelope Davis had done before, and allege that Penelope Davis had previously indecently assaulted (someone). '
article_snippet: It was for that reason, principally it seems, that Carr wanted Penelope Davis silenced, so Penelope Davis recruited others to help Penelope Davis.'
article_snippet: Mr Smith said Penelope Davis knew Carr because Penelope Davis had been in a relationship with Carr father Timothy from about 2006 to 2012.
article_snippet: When Carr was about to marry Carr new love Alison Macintyre in August last year, Mrs Davis - described as a 'forthright and emotional lady' - sent messages to Carr new wife-to-be on Facebook at 2.20am on August 20.
article_snippet: a 'forthright and emotional lady' - sent messages were then shown to Carr and Carr came to learn the 'strength of feeling'
article_snippet: Penelope Davis was expressing against Carr and the threat that Mrs Davis - described was to return to the police with the historical sexual allegations against Carr which she had first made back in 2006.
article_snippet: Mr Smith said Penelope Davis repeated the allegations against Carr in August last year after Penelope Davis found out that Carr was to marry Carr new partner, Alison Macintyre.
article_snippet: Carr said Penelope Davis sent Facebook messages to Alison Macintyre saying one of the alleged victims of Carr would be making a statement to police.
article_snippet: Penelope Davis wrote in one message: 'Good luck, you will need it,' and in another: 'I can't forgive him, all the shit him gave me, I f
article_snippet: Mr Smith said: 'It was not just spoiling the new family that was starting with the imminent marriage, it was much more than that, Penelope Davis was trying to do something specifically to harm Penelope Davis, to throw Penelope Davis life in utter turmoil with the allegations that Penelope Davis says were falsely made against Penelope Davis. '
article_snippet: Mr Smith said: 'So it is that Carr came to the conclusion that killing Pennie Davis was the only means by which Carr could bring those allegations to an end for once and for all was to have her voice silenced. '