Smyth’s defence solicitor said all the police evidence showed was that his client could be linked to a phone top-up on the day of the explosion. <\/p>\n
That phone, police say, was the one used to call the Chinese delivery.<\/p>\n
A detective inspector told the court a man, they believe to be Smyth, was seen on CCTV topping that phone up at a machine in a shop.<\/p>\n
The PSNI officer said: “The very next transaction on that top-up machine is a \u00a320 top-up of a Monzo bank account linked to Mr Smyth.”<\/p>\n
The defence solicitor, arguing for some of the charges to be thrown out, said “all you can say is that he bought a top up at the Centra [shop] and that phone was later used to phone a Chinese”.<\/p>\n
The judge said she “couldn’t separate out those charges” and she was “satisfied that the defendant could be linked to all the charges”.<\/p>\n
No bail application was made and he was remanded into custody to appear again on 18 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smyth’s defence solicitor said all the police evidence showed was that his client could be linked to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-562482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}