Tragedy: Lee McKnight was still breathing when he was put unconscious into the river, the court heard ONE of the people accused of murdering Carlisle man Lee McKnight told a schoolboy he would chop off his brother s head, a jury heard. The threat - allegedly made by 25-year-old Arron Graham - was followed by the defendant telling the youngster he would then throw the brother s body into a river like he did with Lee McKnight. Six defendants – four men and two women – are on trial at Carlisle Crown Court accused of murdering 26-year-old Lee McKnight last year. Jamie Davison, 26, who was trying to recover a drugs debt said to run into thousands of pounds from Mr McKnight, is accused of having orchestrated the violence and recruiting two other men as “extra muscle” to put extra pressure on him.
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Murder suspect vowed to chuck man in river “like what I done to Lee McKnight” trial told
Four men and two women are on trial at the city’s crown court.
They stand accused of the murder of 26-year-old Mr McKnight, whose body was found in the River Caldew early on July 24.
A pathologist concluded he sustained a prolonged and very severe beating away from the site of a gruesome discovery which was made by a farmer.
Today, a jury heard evidence from a secondary school aged boy who had gone with friends to swim in a river at Armathwaite on a hot Friday afternoon, several days after Mr McKnight’s death.
Pride AND JOY: A Ford Focus similar to the one Jenkins attacked, which had a personalised number plate A WEST Cumbrian man who wrongly suspected his former girlfriend sprayed graffiti on his door took drastic action by lobbing a brick at the car which was her “prized possession.” Michael Jenkins, 22, then made matters worse by asking her new partner to persuade her to drop the charges. At Carlisle Crown Court, a judge jailed the defendant after hearing that Jenkins had reacted to the woman’s decision to contact the police about the damage – which cost more than £5,000 to repair – by saying that she had “grassed” on him.
Pride AND JOY: A Ford Focus similar to the one Jenkins attacked, which had a personalised number plate A WEST Cumbrian man who wrongly suspected his former girlfriend sprayed graffiti on his door took drastic action by lobbing a brick at the car which was her “prized possession.” Michael Jenkins, 22, then made matters worse by asking her new partner to persuade her to drop the charges. At Carlisle Crown Court, a judge jailed the defendant after hearing that Jenkins had reacted to the woman’s decision to contact the police about the damage – which cost more than £5,000 to repair – by saying that she had “grassed” on him.