MARCUS Goodfellow started to give his evidence in the witness box this afternoon.
He told the court that he had met Jack Crawley doing security work at the Cumberland Infirmary but said they weren’t particularly close friends.
Goodfellow, 20, from Carlisle, denies a charge of assisting an offender, namely of helping Crawley dispose of Paul Taylor’s car after his death.
He admits being in the blue Vauxhall Corsa on October 19 but said he only learned about Mr Taylor’s links to the vehicle after viewing a missing poster at the hospital.
The reason given for the meet up that day was to go and smoke cannabis in Appleby, with Goodfellow saying: “I smoked cannabis at the time and that’s what was offered to me to go along with him.”
They set off and he described Crawley’s driving as “terrible” and said he was concerned, adding: “I did not feel safe in that car.”
After the crash in Langwathby, Goodfellow said: “Jack was stressing, I was stressing. So we both left the car. I had concerns at this point that the car wasn’t Jack’s.”
A friend picked them up and Goodfellow recalled that Crawley was ranting during the lift.
Of that, he said: “I was growing more concerned each time he (Crawley) spoke.
“I told him to shut the f***up because he had been talking rubbish and I was sick of hearing it.”
He is expected to finish giving evidence tomorrow.
