By Charlotte Shipman
The final witness has come and gone in the Scott Guy murder trial, and Ewen Macdonald did not take the stand to defend himself.
Instead today the jury heard much talk about Mr Guy's last moments.
On the morning Mr Guy was killed he drove down his driveway in darkness, then got out to open his gate.
It's unlikely he saw his killer. Even if he had, ballistics expert Kevan Walsh says Mr Guy couldn't have wrestled the shotgun from his killer.
“It’s too great a distance between Mr Guy and the barrel of the shotgun, it would have been beyond his reach.”
Police say Mr Guy was shot twice.
Mr Walsh estimates the muzzle of the shotgun which fired the first fatal shot at Mr Guy's throat would have been around three to three-and-a-half metres away.
The second shot was across his face and arms as he fell from the first shot.
“It's my opinion that his left arm was held up close to his face – up to his face and to the peak of his cap,” says Mr Walsh.
He could tell because of the way Mr Guy’s cap was riddled with holes from the lead pellets.
“Up through the cap but also directed back, which means he was falling back.”
Lead pellets from the second shot lodged into fence pailings, suggesting the killer may have been on the grass verge just outside Mr Guy’s property.
It's impossible to say what shotgun the pellets were fired from, but the ammunition is traceable because cartridge manufacturers use different plastic wadding.
One plastic wad was found near Mr Guy’s body. The other was lodged in his throat.
They're from a 12 gauge, Winchester ‘Bushman’ cartridge with number five shot.
It's a common ammunition which was also found in the farm office at the back of Macdonald's house.
The prosecution says it's possible that Macdonald used the 12 gauge farm shotgun, which was also in the office, to kill Mr Guy.
Summing up is expected to start tomorrow, and the jury could begin deliberating on Friday.
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