30/05/12….’Jaw dropping’ murder trial jury must decide

THE jury in a murder case described by the Prosecution as ‘jaw dropping,’ today heard a summing up for both the Defence and the Prosecution in the case of Ensar Gol, who allegedly murdered his wife and mother-in-law with a knife, in Thame, in September last year.

The case for the Prosecution is that Gol, an ex Turkish soldier, declared his intention to ‘cut’ his wife, British-born Michala, and his Mother-In-Law, Julie Sahin, both on Facebook and to Julie’s husband, Mehmer Sahin, and in the hearing of other witnesses.

“There is overwhelming evidence from Casey Wilson,” said Prosecution Barrister, Dafydd Enoch, “..the only eye-witness and survivor of this carnage, who came within 1 mm of death..” that you(Gol) perpetrated this act.”

Mr Enoch maintained that the wounds received by the two dead women and the injured Casey, were predominantly to their necks and therefore consistent with someone deliberately aiming to kill, rather than randomly stabbing out in self-defence. Gol’s claim is that he was attacked in his and his wife’s bedroom by Julie Sahin, and that he grabbed the knife from her and used it in self defence when he found himself being attacked by her and Casey Wilson.

Mr Enoch said that the expert blood spatter evidence and wounds to Julie Sahin’s back, proved that she was running down the stairs when she was attacked again.

For the Defence, part of Mr Richard Benson’s case was that Ensar Gol was a foreigner who found himself living in Thame, with no friends to confide in, “..yearning for the warmth of his family and friends at home (in Turkey), living in a household where the atmosphere was poisonous, with a Mother-In-Law who hated him so much that she would not go to her daughter’s wedding in Turkey, who sent ‘horrid’ texts to him and who would not sit at the same table as him to eat.”

“Julie had had enough,” said Mr Benson. “If you look at her behaviour and attitude, it is not out of the question, that she took the knife out of the block.

“She was at the end of her tether. She had it as a priority to get rid of Gol and have her daughter and granddaughter to herself.”

Mr Benson continued that it was ‘reasonable’ if, when Gol saw Julie Sahin had a knife in an apparent attacking stance, he was entitled to defend himself, and that if he lashed out in fear, “in the perception of drink” that this would be the end of his life, he would be entitled to fight back.

Ensar Gol is charged with two counts of murder and one of attempted murder. The case continues tomorrow when the judge will deliver his summing up to the jury of seven women and five men, before they retire to consider their verdict.

PHOTO: Michala Gol (left) and her mother, Julie Sahin