Morgan Huelin's trial is still ongoing, but the lawyers for the five teenagers had asked for the case to be dismissed. The defendants remained their stance that they perverted the course of justice over Huelin's death.
The defendants' lawyers asked the Jersey Youth Court to dismiss Huelin's trial due to lack of evidence, BBC reports. Huelin is a student from Victoria College who overdosed on drugs and died after a house party in July last year. Huelin's five friends whose ages are between 16 to17 denied perverting the course of justice. However, a court has heard that the school boys didn't call emergency services as they feared that the police would find drugs and child sexual abuse images during the incident.
"An ambulance was urgently required. [Defendant One] decided not to call the emergency services. We say that he feared, quite correctly, that calling an ambulance would trigger a chain of events that would result in the police attending the home and searching the property," Advocate Howard Sharp told the court, according to Independent. "It was decided to move Morgan far away from the home so that the police would not come there."
A witness during the incident testified at Huelin's trial. A dog walker Carly Cudlipp told the court that she wondered why five teenagers didn't call an ambulance to rescue a seriously ill boy. Cudlipp claimed that she offered to help the teenagers, but she was told it was fine. She added that there's something strange as the teenagers moved Huelin, but made him feel comfortable.
"Morgan was lying on the ground perfectly still, it looked as though he had a fit or something. [Huelin] was lying with a cushion and a blanket of sorts. There was some desire to make him comfortable but no desire to get help."
Meanwhile, one of the teenagers charged named as Defendant One denied the allegations in the court during Huelin's trial. He claimed that they didn't plan to move Huelin to escape the police's investigation. Defendant One also said that they only moved the 16-year-old because his father disliked Huelin as his friend. Dngelin's trial, he also denied having class A drugs MDMA and LSD, importing the class C drug etizolam, and keeping four indecent images of children, reported by Jersey Evening Post.
Huelin's trial continues as the investigations are starting to uncover the evidences. Huelin was allegedly moved 160 meters up the road from the house party. A post-mortem examination found evidence of etizolam, painkiller morphine, and prescription drugs promethazine and codeine in Huelin's body.
