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From the Simon Darby blog here .

Please note that for reasons of sub-judice we cannot allow comments on this story.

Simon writes:

Before I start giving an account of the day’s proceedings at Stafford Crown Court can I just apologise for knocking back so many comments. There’s a very good reason of course, that being that I neither want myself or anyone else straying into the realms of sub judice.

With that said, I can give you the latest developments in the case of the murder of Keith Brown, which as many of you will know is being covered in The Times by Dominic Kennedy. You can see his impression of the case today by clicking here, hopefully after reading what I have to say.

Julia Barker, Keith’s common-law wife, was in the witness box today. She came across as cool and collected as well as being precise with her evidence. On several occasions she was told by the defending barrister that the Khans had received death threats from Keith and their son Ashley. Julia strenuously denied this and said it was the other way round, telling the jury that Habib Khan had ” threatened to set fire to her son.” She also added that Khan had threatened to kill Keith Brown stating to a hushed court, ” he did what he had threatened, he did kill Keith Brown.”

A local man, Mr Mahmood, who knew Mr Khan from the local mosque, said that he saw Keith Brown lying on the pavement bleeding and his son Ashley in his garden with obvious head wounds. He stated that he saw Mr Khan with blood around the chest area of his Asian clothing and his sons standing where Keith Brown was lying motionless. He added that there were eight Asian men standing in Mr Khan’s drive and eight Asian women watching on the lawn at the front of his house.

Another local witness Stephen Oultram, who the court was told, was a carpet fitter on his way home from work, said in a statement read to the court that he saw Keith with a “river of blood” coming from him.

Forensic evidence from Christopher Lloyd furnished the court with the fact that clothing recovered from Habib Khan was heavily bloodstained around the chest area and sleeves. A wheel brace, the court was told, not only had traces of Ashley’s blood but also of Keith’s. Mr Lloyd also stated that a penknife handed over by one of Mr Khan’s sons allegedly used by Keith Brown to threaten them contained no DNA evidence whatsoever to connect Keith with the weapon.

A PC Lynch, then took to the witness box, who explained to the court that he had no knowledge of a brick that had been handed to him allegedly used by Keith Brown to threaten the Khans.

The judge brought the day’s proceedings to a close at 3:15 having deemed that it would be better that the second batch of forensic evidence should be offered tomorrow.

After typing this, you’ll have to excuse me for not being the in the mood to write of anything else, it would all seem relatively frivolous. I was at the funeral of Keith Brown myself and I will never forget the look on the faces of his children.

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