A SON has described seeing his father shot dead on a Somerset caravan site.

Wilfie Isaacs Jnr, 22, fought back tears as he told a jury how he was shot in the shoulder and watched as his father, Wilfred Isaacs Jnr, 49, was seconds later gunned down with the same pump-action shotgun.

Three members of the Broadway family are on trial at Bristol Crown Court accused of the murder of Mr Isaacs Snr and the attempted murder of his son.

Prosecutors allege 37-year-old John Broadway, who is known as Dewey, gave the order to younger brother Billy, 18, to get a gun who then passed it to Charlie, 24, to shoot the Isaacs.

Tensions had been running high between the Broadway and Isaacs families - who all lived at the Chubbard's Cross caravan site near Ilminster - for almost two years.

The court heard the shooting happened on the evening of May 5 this year following an earlier violent altercation between Charlie Broadway, his two brothers-in-law, Joseph Finney and Riley Jones, and Mr Isaacs and his son.

Charlie Broadway, Finney and Jones are accused of attacking Mr Isaacs Snr with a metal bar - causing a cut to his eye - after he had complained that some younger members of the Broadway family had been rude to him.

Somerset County Gazette:

In an interview with the police two days after his father's death, Wilfie Isaacs Jnr told detectives what happened after they went to speak to the mother of the girl who was being rude - and Charlie Broadway, Finney and Jones turned up.

He said: "My dad said 'your daughter's being cheeky to me and she told me to f*** off'," he told police.

"It was nothing to do with them. They jumped on my dad. I managed to get them off him and we went back to our place. One of them hit my dad on the head with a metal bar.

"It was quite a bad cut and needed stitches. The side of my face was swollen after being punched."

Mr Isaacs said that he told his mother and brother Barry what happened and suddenly the Broadways appeared.

"Dewey said 'get a gun, Billy'. I don't know where he went but he wasn't gone long. Billy got the gun and passed it to his brother Charlie," he said.

"Everything happened so quick. Billy passed the gun to Charlie and shot me and shot my dad. It was close range.

"Charlie held it up and pulled the trigger. Shot me in the shoulder. He was probably aiming for my head but I moved at the last minute. Then he shot my dad."

Wiping away tears, Mr Isaacs said: "My dad fell on the floor. After he shot me and my dad he aimed at my mum and my two-year-old daughter. He said 'go in or I'll shoot'."

Mr Isaacs said he had not seen the black pump-action shotgun before but the Broadways were "always firing guns in the air".

He said: "You would be sat down watching the TV and you would hear guns being fired all the time... always had guns."

After the shootings, John Broadway was allegedly driven from the caravan site by his sister Bonnie Wilson, 30, while Charlie left seperately and Billy remained. Jones and Finney also left.


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Charlie Broadway, John Broadway and Billy Broadway deny the murder of Wilfred Isaacs Snr and the attempted murder of Wilfie Isaacs Jnr.

Charlie Broadway and Billy Broadway also deny a charge of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life

Joseph Finney, Riley Jones and Charlie Broadway also deny unlawfully wounding Wilfred Isaacs Snr and the assault occasioning actual bodily harm of Wilfie Isaacs Jnr.

Bonnie Wilson denies a charge of assisting an offender.

The trial continues.