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Barry Dixon died in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee
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by Dave Finlay
Updated: March 2, 2021, 5:26 pm
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Barry Dixon
An alleged murder victim was found with a stab wound to the chest after emergency services responded to a 999 call, a court has heard.
Barry Dixon, from Dundee, was taken from a house in Perth to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, where a scan revealed he had fluid in the sac around his heart.
Blood which had gathered around the organ was removed but a single stab injury to the heart was identified, the High Court in Edinburgh was told in agreed evidence on Tuesday.
But during efforts by surgeons to repair the injury, Mr Dixon went into cardiac arrest and life was later pronounced dead at the age of 22.