All five deny the charges
Four Teens Received Life Sentences For The Murder Of Mason Rist And Max Dixon
The trial of five people accused of helping the murderers of Bristol teenagers Max Dixon and Mason Rist after the attack will take place next month, a judge at Bristol Crown Court has confirmed. The five appeared at court today, Monday, October 13, for a final preliminary hearing.
All five have previously pleaded ‘not guilty’ to charges of assisting an offender in relation to the double murder, which took place in South Bristol at the end of January 2024.
At Bristol Crown Court, Judge Peter Blair told all of them they had to return to court for a trial that is scheduled for four weeks, and will begin on November 17. The family of Mason Rist, one of the two teenagers stabbed to death outside Mason’s home in Knowle West, were in court to see the preliminary hearing.
Ellie Maddocks and Dominic Smith, a couple from Westbury-on-Trym, are charged with two counts of assisting an offender. It is alleged they allowed two of the five convicted of the double murders, Kodi Wescott and a 16-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons, to stay at their home after the attack and then drove them to an address in Weston-super-Mare.
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Marcus Williams, from Hartcliffe, is charged with assisting Riley Tolliver, the eldest of the four teenagers convicted of murder last year, by driving him to Weston-super-Mare.
Another couple, Jillian Tolliver, from Hartcliffe, and Kristian Hooper, from Weston-super-Mare, have also been charged with assisting an offender in relation to those later convicted.
Five people were found guilty by a jury late last year of the double murders. Best friends Max and Mason were stabbed to death outside Mason’s home in Ilminster Avenue late in the evening of January 27.
Mason Rist and Max Dixon(Image: Max Dixon family)
Antony Snook, 45, Riley Tolliver, 18, Kodi Wescott, 17, and two other teenagers who can’t be named for legal reasons, were all jailed for life, with a range of minimum terms to be served – from Snook’s 38 years before he can apply for parole, to the 15-year-old’s minimum of 15 years.
A week or so after the five were sentenced to life in prison for the attack, two other men were jailed for assisting an offender. Jamie Ogbourne, 27, and Bailey Wescott, 23, both from Hartcliffe , pleaded guilty to two counts of assisting an offender and were jailed for five years and three months