A man gave a group intel on a ‘friend’ before he was kidnapped and tortured, prosecutors allege.
22.03.2024 - 10:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A teenager fatally stabbed a dad in a flat in Wigan after a ‘confrontation’ at a social gathering, a trial has heard.
Paul Marsh, 49, was at a friend's flat in Atherton with a number of other people, during which drugs and alcohol were taken, it was said. Also at the flat was a then 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
During the course of the afternoon, tensions between the two developed into an argument causing both to ‘square up to each other’, prosecutors allege.
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Jurors heard that during the ‘confrontation’ Mr Marsh was stabbed to his shoulder. The wound severed a majority artery, and despite the best efforts of paramedics, he sadly died.
The boy, now 17, is on trial at Minshull Street Crown Court. He denies murder and an alternate offence of manslaughter.
Prosecutor Michael Hayton KC said that on the afternoon of November 17 last year, Mr Marsh had gone to his friend and former neighbours flat on Samuel Street.
Other people had gathered at the flat including the flat owner, Matthew McCarrick, his on/off partner, his brother and sister, and 16-year-old boys.
“This was not a particularly wholesome social gathering. Almost everybody, if not everybody, was taking drugs of some sort. People were smoking cannabis, and there was evidence of people smoking crack cocaine, a form of cocaine,” Mr Hayton said.
“The majority of the other people, apart from him and his friend, were considerably older. As the afternoon wore on, it would appear there was a period of tension between Mr Marsh and the defendant.”
Jurors were told that the boy had been at the flat a fortnight before on November
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