PROSECUTORS in the Neil Entwistle murder trial have requested the financial records from a gambling website where Worksop-born Entwistle lost 'hundreds of dollars' in the month before his wife and baby's death.
A seven-page report from prosecutor Michael Fabbri has been sent to the British territory of Gibraltar requesting all the financial documents for a European website called Casino On Net.
Reports claim that the prosecution wants the records to help prove that Entwistle's financial problems led him to shoot his wife Rachel, 27, and nine-month-old daughter Lillian on 20th January 2006 in their Hopkinton home in America.
Casino on Net is run by a company called Cassava Enterprise Ltd, which is based in Gibraltar. In the letter, Fabbri states that Entwistle, 28, opened the gambling account on 15th December 2005 - a month before the murders.
The prosecutor claims Entwistle lost hundreds of dollars that month, which Fabbri said is key evidence in building the motive for the murders.
In the letter, Fabbri says: 'The prosecutor needs records relating to this account to help establish that Entwistle had financial difficulties and that these difficulties affected his state of mind and provided him with a motive to commit murder.'
Court records suggest that the financial details have not yet been sent to the district attorney's office.
Entwistle is accused of shooting and killing his wife and daughter. Authorities say he stole a gun from his in-laws' home and used it to shoot them in their bed.
They say he then drove back to his in laws' house, returned the gun and flew to his parents home in Worksop, where he was later arrested and extradited to Massachusetts.
Entwistle told authorities he discovered his wife and daughter's bodies at their home, considered killing himself, but could not go through with it. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and the illegal possession of a firearm and is being held without bail at the Middlesex Jail in Cambridge, America. If convicted, he faces a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Entwistle's trial is scheduled to begin 2nd June in the Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, America.
