Accused: Daniel Breaks

A MAN accused of murder who allegedly kidnapped a Chester-le- Street couple at knifepoint has told a court that they had just given him a lift.

Daniel Breaks is alleged to have tied up Mike and Joy Heaps and driven them in their car from their home to London.

It is claimed he went to the home of the couple, whom he knew, after leaving Merseyside where he had battered his sister's partner, Simon Sutton to death.

But Breaks said two men killed Mr Sutton for grassing' on them about their criminal activities.

He said earlier that to try to protect them, he had punched both his sister, Gwyneth, and Mr Sutton so it would be known they had been punished.

He said he incriminated himself to protect his sister, and got blood on himself before he travelled by coach on April 16, last year, to the Heaps' home.

He told Mr Heaps, a former probation officer, he had killed Mr Sutton.

Breaks, 48, said he had lived with the Heaps for a while. He knew Mr Heaps would tell the police about his confession, which is what he wanted.

"I said I was going to London and could he give me a lift."

He denied kidnapping them.

Breaks, of Liverpool, is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court where he denies murder, two offences of false imprisonment, two of kidnapping and blackmail.

10:56am Friday 4th July 2008

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