Schoolboy heard shouts in car park, murder trial told
ATEENAGE schoolboy told a murder trial jury how he heard a disturbance in a Home Bargains car park in Rhyl and heard shouts including; “I’ve stabbed the b ***** d.”
The jury heard that the 15-yearold saw three or four men around a van, after which the prosecution say Mark Mason was stabbed 22 times and died of his injuries.
The teenager said he saw one man at the passenger door of the van, two men at the driver’s door, and a fourth man in a BMW vehicle parked next to it.
He thought that the man at the passenger door of the van was trying to grab, punch or stab someone through the open window.
“I heard shouting, a bit of commotion,” the boy told the court.
In his police interview, a recording of which was played to the jury, the boy said he and a friend were nearby when they heard an argument break out.
They heard one voice shout: “I’ve stabbed the b ***** d.”
Then he saw people running into the BMW which drove off.
“The whole thing probably took 10 seconds or less,” the boy said.
The prosecution say Mr Mason was killed when a drugs turf war erupted.
It is alleged that Mr Mason and another man had tried to attack two of the so-called rival Pensarn drugs crew, James Davies and Jake Melia, earlier in the day as they dealt drugs at The Cob, an area of land near The Marine Lake.
They ran into the water to escape two men with balaclavas and a machete.
The jury has heard claims that to seek retribution two men came from Liverpool to help Davies and Melia and all four followed the van into the car park where the attack took place last October.
Davies, 21, of Moscow Drive, Liverpool; Anthony Baines, 31, of Sutcliffe Street, Liverpool; and Mark Ennis, 31, of Bedford Road, Liverpool, deny the murder of Mr Mason and maliciously wounding Justin Trickett and Sam Illidge with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.
Both Trickett and Illidge ran from the van after being stabbed but refused to make complaints.
Melia, 21, of Eastbourne Road, Liverpool, has admitted all three charges.
The trial, before Mrs Justice Nicola Davies, continues.