Prosecution say Colin Ash-Smith used a false alibi

"The defendant has over the years maintained his innocence of this murder, and he claimed, and continues to claim, that he has an alibi. We suggest that this is a false alibi not given innocently because he fears that he would not otherwise be believed but because he is guilty of this murder and he knows it. We will see that in both of the other attacks to which he pleaded guilty in 1996, he sought at first to divert the police with lies and provide false alibis."