As part of the sentencing hearing for Kimberly Proctor's killers, the Crown played in court last week a wiretap intercept of a conversation between Kruse Wellwood and Cameron Moffat as they were driven in a sheriff's van to make their first appearance at the Victoria courthouse on June 21, 2010.

The Times Colonist, along with several other media organizations, applied to the court to have recordings of the conversations released. On Monday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston agreed, and released to the media the transcripts and audio recordings.

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In the recordings, the youths, who had been interrogated for two full days by senior investigators, are being taken to court from the Youth Detention Centre, and then back again.

Last week, Crown prosecutor Peter Juk called the drive to court a "light-hearted trip," as Wellwood and Moffat can be heard laughing and seem more preoccupied by their shoes and their hair than the charges against them.

But Wellwood also expresses disapproval that his accomplice has made some admissions to the police. He tells Moffat, he is exercising his right to silence.

"I know you are not," says Wellwood, adding that investigators had shown him a video of Moffat telling police about the murder.

To read the transcript of the teens' conversation on their way to their court hearing, download the PDF here.

To read the transcript of the teens' conversation on their way back from their court hearing, download the PDF here.

To listen to a recording of the teens' conversation on their way to their court hearing, click here.

To listen to a recording of the teens' conversation on their way back from their court hearing, click here.