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JURORS have examined the knife used by a man when he allegedly murdered teenager Dele Little.

The three women and nine men hearing the case of Aaron Roche were asked to wear latex blue gloves as they individually held the silver butterfly knife.

Winchester Crown Court heard how Roche had owned the knife for six months after buying it on the Internet. The court previously was told it was one of a collection of blades owned by the 21-year-old, who would "entertain" himself by playing with it and learning tricks.

It is alleged that Roche stabbed 15-year-old Dele Little once through the heart with the weapon which he had been carrying in his back pocket on the night of Saturday February 3.

The jury was also shown three separate items of heavily bloodstained clothing that Dele had been wearing on the night he died, which were bagged up and marked "hazardous" with yellow tape.

Giving evidence, Dr Hugh White, home office pathologist, said he carried out the post-mortem examination on Dele at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and had seen both the knife and clothing.

He told the court that Dele had suffered a knife wound 2.8cm in length to the left side of his chest. He said the weapon had penetrated the skin by eight to ten centimetres and had pierced the left ventricle, which is the main pumping chamber to the heart.

Dr White said that "a moderate" degree of force would have been used to inflict an injury like that suffered by Dele.

Forensic scientist Claire Morse had examined the knife and victim's clothing at a laboratory. She told the court that DNA on Roche's belt and trainer - speckles of blood - matched that of Dele Little.

Jurors were also told that swabs taken from the scene, close to a parked car, proved to be that of Aaron Roche while the chances of the blood on the knife not being that of Dele Little would be one in a billion.

The final piece of evidence before Prosecutor Christopher Parker finished his case against Aaron Roche, was a DVD of footage taken from the Internet which was played to jurors and showed the many "tricks" that could be done using a butterfly knife.

The footage was found by detectives and downloaded for the court, Roche, formerly of Ringwood Road, Lyndhurst, denies murder.

Proceeding.