A man accused of involvement in a robbery at the home Mark Cavendish has denied a connection to the case

The trial with a gang that threatened and robbed Mark Cavendish and his wife in 2021 continues. A man accused of involvement in a robbery at the home Cavendish has denied a phone connected to the raid was his, BBC reports about the trial.

DNA recovered from that phone was attributed to Ali Sesay, and police then traced a phone attributed to him. Police used communications data from that telephone to identify other telephone numbers. Prosecutors said one such mobile phone number had been attributed to Jobson. Defence barrister Piers Mostyn said: "The only link to this offence and the defendant is the phone, that he [Jo Jobson] denies is his."

The prosecution said photographs of Jobson were issued by police by January 2022, and that he handed himself into Chelmsford Police Station on 5 June 2023. "A guilty person on the run wouldn't just go into a police station like that," Mostyn said adding that "there is no direct evidence that he had that phone."

Summing up, Judge Timothy Walker said it was "accepted whoever was in possession of the... phone was involved in the robbery. It's disputed whether he [Jobson] was in possession of that phone on the night in question," he said.