Mum ‘had threesome with killer and his victim before covering up fatal shooting at holiday park for convict lover’
A MUM had a threesome with a killer and his victim before trying to cover up the fatal holiday park shooting, a court has heard.
Daisy Donohoe helped convict lover Jonathan Lawlor "lie low" after he murdered Sam Petrou - who he'd met while both were prisoners in HMP Stamford Hill, it is alleged.
The mum-of-two, 36, booked a hotel stay and bought Lawlor clothing so he could evade justice after blasting his victim, jurors were told.
He used a converted blank-firing self-loading pistol to carry out the killing on June 10 last year, it is alleged.
Dad Sam, 35, was gunned down in a friend's caravan at Cliff Cottage Chalet Park, on the Isle of Sheppey.
He previously engaged in a three-way sexual encounter with the couple while Lawlor was on home leave 13 months earlier, the court heard.
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Lawlor was detained in connection with Sam's death and charged, but died while on remand in prison, aged 42, reports .
Donohoe was left to stand trial alone accused of perverting the course of justice.
On top of booking the hotel and purchases, cops found internet searches on her phone on how to obtain Irish passports and flights to Vietnam, Maidstone Crown Court was told.
She denies knowing her late boyfriend - who she had known since childhood - was responsible for the killing.
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Giving evidence on Wednesday, she detailed the verbal abuse she would receive from Lawlor during their two-year relationship.
She said he would bully her, accusing her of cheating, while drinking and taking drugs.
Donohoe, of Welling, southeast London, said he would "track" her movements, had headbutted a work colleague and slapped her in a row over her lip filler.
She also claimed she believed Lawlor had shot her in the backside while she slept a month prior to the killing.
Donohoe had been in a brief relationship with Lawlor in 2005, having known him since she was five, the court heard.
In 2020 she then wrote to him in prison for "nostalgic reasons" before beginning visits at Standford Hill, it was said.
The relationship rekindled the following year when Lawlor was allowed on home leave after being transferred to Ford open prison in West Sussex.
THREE-WAY ROMP
It was while on leave in May 2022 that the threesome with Sam - who was already free - occurred, jurors heard.
Donohoe said the sex had been instigated by Lawlor but claimed it was not something she wanted to do.
"Jonathan and I were at home and Sam had been calling, wanting to meet up," she explained.
"Jonathan invited him to our house, we all had a drink and Jonathan decided he wanted me to perform a sexual act on him in front of Sam ... it started from there."
Donohoe also said on two further occasions Lawlor had wanted her to have sex with other people during other times he was on leave.
She also described "breaking down" when he hired a male escort because she had refused to visit a sex club.
But she said he and Sam, who was from Gillingham, were "fine" after their hook-up and "nothing changed" in the men's friendship.
But in December 2022, Lawlor shot Sam with an airgun, and warned that "next time it would be real", the jury heard.
Sam then gave his former fellow inmate "a wide berth" until their chance meeting at The Coppice pub in Eastchurch on June 9 last year, the court was told.
The encounter, captured on CCTV, showed the two men sitting at a garden table, with Lawlor gesticulating at Sam and becoming animated.
GUNNED DOWN
The next evening he was murdered.
One bullet severed his aorta artery and lodged against his backbone while the other passed through his body and ricocheted off a kitchen unit and into the shower room.
Sam was found dead, slumped on the floor against a cupboard on June 11.
The gun itself was never recovered but DNA on the bullet casings found at the scene matched Lawlor's.
He was also identified as the shooter from CCTV, and was seen fleeing Sheppey in Donohoe's Jeep with her in the passenger seat, the court was told.
The couple stayed at The Shurland Hotel in Eastchurch High Street the night before the shooting, and then arrived at the Holiday Inn Express in Sittingbourne, just 20 minutes after the killing, the court heard.
Donohoe said she was not aware Lawlor had been in regular contact with another woman, sending messages which included one saying "just done job".
And she denied that her decision to give him her phone SIM when she left the Holiday Inn to go home was another attempt to help him "cover his tracks".
The day before the shooting pair met up with Lawlor's sister Victoria, who had a caravan near the Cliff Cottage site, and drank into the early hours before returning to The Shurland, the court heard.
The next day - that of the fatal shooting itself - they returned to his sister's caravan for a barbecue, jurors were told.
She said there came a point when her boyfriend left his sister's.
Donohoe told the court: "He just came out (the caravan) and walked straight off past me. He didn't say a word to me. I felt like crap and thought just let him be. I wasn't sure where he was going."
This was the moment Lawlor, who was also wanted on prison licence recall at the time, had left to carry out the killing, it is alleged.
When he returned later - claiming to have been for a drink - she said he asked for her car keys and then told her to "get in".
He drove her to the Holiday Inn, the court heard.
She denied that he told her during the journey that he had "done the job" and they needed to "get away quickly".
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Lawlor was arrested in Newcastle on June 15. The court heard he died in prison in October.
Donohoe denies perverting the course of justice between June 9 and June 12 last year and her trial continues.
