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Court hears how drug dealer stabbed underling to death and dumped him by the Mersey over missing cash
Nazzareno Abela on trial over death of Mark Reissing at Liverpool Crown Court
A drug dealer stabbed one of his underlings to death in a row over missing cash and dumped him by the Mersey to be found by a dog walker the next day, a murder trial was told today.
Nazzareno Abela allegedly murdered Mark Reissing, 48, in Wirral before fleeing to Scotland with the help of his drug dealing boss.
Alongside Abela in the dock is fellow drug dealer Geoffrey Allen, who is also accused of Mr Reissing’s murder and Christopher Halpin who is accused of helping him after the killing by arranging for his blood stained car to be disposed of and giving him a vehicle to escape in, as well as being a dealer in class A drugs.
Simon Driver, QC, said: “It is all to do with drugs. The dead man and the three defendants were all involved in selling drugs and that caused a dispute which led to this violence.”
Mr Driver said Abela, 46, worked in Wallasey selling drugs for a Liverpool dealer called “Trevor” who was actually Christopher Halpin.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Abela would give drugs to Mark Reissing on credit and he would sell them to pay him back but Abela came to believe that money was going missing and went looking for Mr Reissing with Geoffrey Allen, 40.
CCTV showed the three men meet up at midnight on July 8 last year and walk to Rice Hey Road where Allen lived.
It is there that Abela allegedly attacked Mr Reissing with a lump of wood and a knife and after killing him drove him in his Vauxhall Astra down to Egremont Promenade in Wallasey leaving him propped up against a wall.
A neighbour told police he heard “aggressive male voices” with one man saying “****ing do it then”, and a further witness said he heard a man say: “Get him in the car”.
Around 1am a cyclist saw a man on the ground at the promenade but thought he was drunk so it was not until nearly 6am that a dog walker discovered Mr Reissing’s body slumped in a seated position.
He had fatal stab wounds to his legs, had been hit with a blunt object and a bone in his neck was broken.
Police going door to door the day after the murder interviewed Geoffrey Allen who said he had had no visitors and nothing untoward had happened but when they arrested him he confessed Abela had attacked Mr Reissing outside his house but he had just watched and hadn’t taken part, which the prosecution does not accept.
He said Abela then drove away with Mr Reissing in his car and when he returned was alone, telling him he: “Dropped Reissing down a dark lane... he’s not going to be found. I think I’ve gone overboard.”
Allen said he gave Abela a change of clothing and washed his bloody clothes because he was scared of him, while Abela arranged for “the lads who he sells drugs for to take the car away, to get rid of that”.
Mr Reissing’s blood stains were found in Allen’s house, in his washing machine and a blood stained shirt said to belong to Abela was found in a bin near his home.
His blood was also found in Abela’s car, which was burned out in north Liverpool, and at Abela’s sister’s house.
Mr Driver said Christopher Halpin, 30, of Roscommon Street, Everton arranged for the Astra to be taken through the Wallasey tunnel to Liverpool and further gave Abela, of Springfield Place, Wallasey, a white transit van which he used to drive to Aberdeen the next day.
Abela denies murder, saying he was at his sister’s at the time and had leant his car to Allen.
Mr Driver, said: “It seems therefore that this is a case in which the two defendants are blaming each other.”
Both Allen and Abela have admitted supplying class A drugs but Christopher Halpin denies that charge and two counts of assisting an offender.
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