When he was told that he had inquired whether the deceased had a family so that he could be murdered without anyone looking for him, Defendant 2 replied: "What if I had really known that [Defendant 1] intended to murder him, I would not have approached [Defendant 1] and I would have cut off contact with him... I don't belong to this world of the criminal world, I'm a learned person... I don't need this nonsense." To the question of how this fits in with the fact that in the same conversation he told defendant 1 that he would come to him within 40 minutes, after that he did get to him and that night they murdered the deceased, he replied, "[Defendant 1] told me that night that we were going to meet with him and buy the drugs from him and that was all, I didn't know that he wanted to murder him even at the beginning that I told you that he wanted to kill him, I thought he was joking with me, I really didn't think the situation would turn into this situation, and if I would have known that the situation would get to such an extent that I wouldn't have contacted him, I would just run away from this person and again I'm not out of this world and I have no reason to do such a thing... If I had known that this is what he is planning, I would not have come close to him" (ibid. 97-112).
Later, when he was told that the evidence unequivocally showed that he and defendant 1 had planned the murder together and that there was no threat to him, defendant 2 replied that he would not have planned such a thing, that he was incapable of murder, and that if he had known that the case would come to an end, he would not have spoken to defendant 1 (ibid., at paras. 137-140).
Regarding the manner in which the deceased was assaulted
During interrogation by the commander of the Central Intelligence Unit, Defendant 2 claimed that they arrived in the deceased's car to an area with trees, a kind of forest, and there his partner surprised the deceased from behind, "He brought him a blow from behind and dismantled him... I don't know with a stone with a sock with something"; to the question of whether he gave him one blow, he replied, "How many blows he gave him, he just broke it up." To the question of whether the deceased was unconscious, he replied, "I think he was dead, I think he dismantled him"; and to the question of whether he hit him with a stone or a box, he replied, "He just dismantled it, I couldn't see it was dark, he took something he gave him behind his head" (P/11, p. 4, s. 20, p. 5, s. 33).