At the Julie Corkill trial a second contractor has denied he faked invoices.

The claim was made by defence advocate Dawn Jones on Friday, and today she made the same allegation against ground worker and labourer Mark Jones.

A heated exchange, in which Mr Jones was accused of being a liar, was stopped by the High Bailiff, Michael Moyle.

On Friday Mr. Jones complained that Mrs. Corkill had treated him like a slave and an errand boy.

Mrs. Corkill denies four charges of false accounting and two of obtaining money by deception, relating to work on holiday cottages at her home at Ballacain, Onchan.

Graham Bell has this extended report:

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Dawn Jones claimed the contractor's evidence was exaggerated, and in some places made up.

She said one invoice, dated July 2002, had a mobile phone number on it which Mr Jones wasn't allocated until September the following year.

Mrs. Jones claimed the invoices were fabricated at a later date to support Will Kelly and Colin Moore's civil case against Julie Corkill, the wife of former chief minister, Richard Corkill.

She also pulled out Mr Jones' tax returns for 2002 to 2003 which, she said, contradicted his claims of the amount of work he had done at Ballacain.

And she referred to his list of previous convictions.

They including defrauding the DHSS in 1990, and a number of offences of violence, which included being sentenced to 22 months for assault causing grievous bodily harm in 1999.

Mr Jones said he had paid his debt to society.

Dawn Jones also told the court how Mrs Corkill had helped one of the builders on the site find new accomodation when he was evicted, and said she did the same for Mr. Jones' girlfriend.

Mr Jones said he couldn't remember Mrs. Corkill making a donation of ?100 towards the cost of a scramble bike for his son, or providing the builders with Easter eggs at Easter and mince pies and beers at Xmas.

Stuart Kneale, prosecuting, then took Mr Jones through his hours worked at Ballacain, and demonstrated how, as far as he was concerned, they did match the information on his tax return.

A police constable called by Mr Kneale, referred to an intelligence reported, dated December 2001, in which Mr Jones gave his contact number as the one Dawn Jones claimed he wasn't allocated until September 2003.

At this point there was a brief adjournment, after which Dawn Jones showed Mr Jones wasn't in the 2003 phone, but was there in 2004, under the relevant mobile number.

There was an early break for lunch and Will Kelly will be the first to give evidence, when the trial resumes, and that should be happening about now.

(Picture: Julie Corkill and her advocate, Dawn Jones, arriving at Douglas courthouse).