A WOMAN who stands accused of assisting an offender is 'no criminal mastermind', a court has heard.

As previously reported, a trial at Winchester Crown Court is underway following the murder of father-of-two Frantisek Olah in Basingstoke.

Ismaila Kamarra-Jarra, 19, of Milton Close, Basingstoke; Je Daine Carty, 18, of Ferndown Close, Basingstoke; and Cohan Daley, 18, whose address cannot be given for legal reasons, have all been charged with murder.

Mr Olah, 31, was found with serious injuries in Musgrave Close, Brighton Hill on Sunday, May 22. He was later pronounced dead.

The three men allegedly fled the scene of the murder with the help of Kaysha Saunders and Kelsea Byrne. While Carty and Kamarra-Jarra fled to Oxford, Daley was later arrested in Southampton.

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Saunders, 18, from Highfield Chase, Basingstoke, and Byrne, 19, from Warwick Road, Basingstoke, and Abbie Mills, 18, from Woburn Gardens, Basingstoke have been charged with assisting an offender. 

This week barristers have been delivering their closing statements to the jury before they deliberate.

On Tuesday, January 17 Katherine Kellaher, defending Sanders, spoke to the jury.

She said Sanders allegedly helped arrange lifts for the three men accused of murder as well as arranging accommodation for them.

Ms Kellaher said: "Here we have a young girl who just did not think. I suggest to you that this is a young girl who that night gave the boy she fancied a lift and the evidence is no higher than that. There was no criminal mastermind in what she did. 

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"This is a girl who unwittingly and unknowingly and disbelievingly helped someone. This is an 18-year-old girl with the rest of her life in your hands. She fell in with the wrong boy, she fell in love with the wrong boy."

As previously reported it is believed that Abbie Mills, disposed of a knife, which police later located close to her home address. 

Tom Ackworth, defending Mills added: "Abbie Mills did not hide that knife in Dartmouth Walk. The best evidence comes from the mouth of a man who the prosecution say is a liar and a murderer.

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"She is a young woman with all sorts of problems and we knew that life can't be easy."

He told the court that when Mills was giving evidence, she was like "a rabbit in her headlights".

Mill's thumb print was found but Ackworth told the court "it only tells us she touched the knife at some point not when."

The jury is now expected to retire to deliberate the verdict.