A WITNESS told a murder trial how she woke on a friend’s sofa to hear about a fight which had taken place in Marsden with two Scottish lads.
The prosecution say minutes earlier Luke Elliott, 22, and Anthony Driver, 36, rushed into the house at Mount Road, Marsden, having carried out a fatal attack on Scottish piper Craig Hepburn, inset.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, gave evidence at Leeds Crown Court yesterday.
She said she saw Driver for the first time that evening when she was woken and he was telling two other friends he and Elliott had ‘got into a fight with two Scottish lads’.
The girl told how Driver looked ‘jumpy’ and ‘on edge’ and said he told them the fight was ‘something about a football shirt’.
The court heard earlier in the trial Craig was wearing a Manchester City shirt on the day of the attack.
She said Elliott ‘looked like nothing had happened’ but said she saw him in the kitchen washing beer he had spilt.
The prosecution maintains he was washing a lock-knife used in the killing, which was later found at the house to have Mr Hepburn’s DNA on it.
During cross-examination, Mr John Elvidge, for Driver, accused the witness of trying to make things better for Elliott.
Mr Elvidge said the witness would have heard Elliott admit stabbing two people, as other witnesses have told, but she said she did not.
She said she was asleep and was woken up to hear of a fight and initially thought Elliott and Driver had fought each other.
Elliott of Main Avenue, Cowlersley, and Driver, of Grange Cottages, Marsden, deny murder and the attempted murder of a second man Conor Paton.
The trial continues.
