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Raj Grover, 41, said his son Kevneet, 15, answered the door after Mr Isichei knocked and begged for an ambulance while calling for his wife.

Kevneet said: “He was holding on to the side of the door and when I opened it, he collapsed in front of the door and I shouted ‘dad come downstairs, come downstairs’.”

Mr Grover said: “I went downstairs and saw he was full of blood, and then I was running to pick up a towel.

“I put the towel on and I was pressing to stop the blood, then my wife came out. We called the ambulance and the police.”

Businessman Mr Grover said the victim asked him to call his wife, who then arrived at the house.

“I don’t know what happened in the pub just around the corner. He came back, was on his way back and somebody stabbed him twice with a knife on the stomach and on his side,” he said. I asked him a few times, ‘Who did that Allan? What happened?’. But he said, ‘Don’t ask me these questions, call my wife because I’m losing it’. I quickly ran to his house and called his wife. I didn’t say there had been a stabbing – I didn’t want to panic her. Then I held her hand and walked her over to him.

“He kept saying to his wife, ‘Come closer to me, come closer to me’, as he was laying on the floor and I was pressing the towel to his chest. The blood just kept on pouring out.”

A friend said he would come to the Plough Inn about once a week. He played in the band and used to pop in for a chat. “He never had more than one pint. He was a lovely fellow, really mild-mannered, a lovely man.”

He was described by regulars as a “loving father and grandfather” who played saxophone and sang in jazz bands. One said: “He was seen leaving here and walking normally on his own. Nobody followed him and there were no signs of aggravation.

Police arrested four young men on suspicion of murder after a 21-yearold was stabbed to death outside a nightclub in Maidstone, Kent. Four others were left seriously injured in the incident early yesterday.