Central Criminal Court

A murder trial witness has called a man accused of murdering a homeless man a “scummy bastard” and insisted he did not tell lies in his evidence to the jury.

The witness, who cannot be named by order of the court, insisted under cross examination that the accused told him that he had put the deceased “out of his misery” and that he had “slaughtered him”. He also said that the accused is trying to claim insanity, which the witness described as “bullshit”.

In his direct evidence yesterday, the witness said that the accused man Philip Dunbar (20) came to his ….read more