A FORENSIC scientist told a murder trial jury of blood stains she found in a Southampton flat where a vulnerable young man Jamie Dack was allegedly killed.

Claire Morse described how in her investigation of a bedroom, she saw blood stains and spots of blood on three walls – one to the left, one to the right and the opposite the entrance.

She told Winchester Crown Court that on the floor in front of a wardrobe, there was a large area of bloodstains and diluted stains, which was indicative of an attempt to clean it up.

The scientist also found two drag marks on the floor and two area of contact blood staining on the wardrobe.

She was testifying in the trial of four people, accused of murdering Jamie on Good Friday this year.

The prosecution claim the 22-ydear-old was repeatedly stabbed and battered with broken bottles, fists and feed by the group who had set out to rob him. His body was then dumped in a wheelie bin and taken to an industrial site where it was set on fire in the early hours of Easter Sunday.

Lee Nicholls, 28, of Southampton Street, Southampton; Andrew Dwyer-Skeats, 26 and Donna Chalk, 21, both of Bevois Mews, Southampton, and Ryan Woodmansey, 32, of no fixed abode, deny murder.

The three men admit perverting the course of justice by disposing of and setting fire to Jamie’s body. Chalk denies that charge.

The prosecution is expected to close its case later this week.

Proceeding.