Thus, for example, Defendant 1 admitted to answering that he had joined the trip with Muhammad and Defendant 2 to the Occupied Territories out of boredom in order to shop in the Occupied Territories, and they parted. Later on, defendant 1 actually admitted to the trip, but changed his version regarding the purpose of the trip.
Defendant 1 also claimed in response to the indictment submitted in court, in relation to drugs, that he had nothing to do with drugs (p. 41) and in his testimony changed his version and claimed that he knew about the drug deal (P. of December 26, 2022, p. 279), the defendant stated that he did not know what quantity of drugs were involved (p. 314) and that he did not know who was supposed to sell the drugs, but in any case it was not him (p. 333).
In addition, according to defendant 1 in response to the indictment he gave to the court (p. 41), he was not part of the day of the incident, and at the time of the murder he was on his way to Lod, but later in his testimony he initially stated that he had traveled from Lod to Beersheba, and that he was told to wait near Lakiya (December 26, 2022, p. 280) and later testified that he had arrived with Muhammad in a Toyota from Lod to Dor Alon Lakiya, he was left in the area of Lakiya and later they drove to meet defendants 2 and 3 (pp. 297-299).
In the aforesaid circumstances, it can be said that an examination of the testimony of defendant 1 in court shows that the testimony was confused and full of internal contradictions. His testimony also did not match the answer he gave in court, and it was also a suppressed version, in which no convincing explanation was given for the suppression of the testimony, and no other evidence was presented to convince him of the truth of the suppressed version. In light of all this, the weight that will be given to the version given by defendant 1 to the court will be of low weight.
Proof of the offense of conspiracy and murder
After it was proven that defendant 1 was involved in bringing the Mazda vehicle from the Occupied Territories, and that he left his personal phone in Lod, that he arrived at the "Dor-Alon" station in Lakiya, and that he traveled together at the time of the murder with the intention of committing the murder, and that the car was set on fire after the murder, it was also proven that defendant 1 was involved in conspiring to commit the murder and destroying evidence.