A REVELLER who encountered the brothers accused of murdering a Hampshire newsagent moments before the alleged attack was so concerned by their aggression that he called 999.

Joe Ingram today told Winchester Crown Court how Sam and Jon McKinley “seemed to be bouncing off each other and trying to be intimidating to everyone to prove themselves”.

He added: “He said stuff like 'if you pick a fight with my brother then I will be the one you will be fighting'.”

The McKinley brothers both stand accused of murdering popular newsagent Choudhry Zisha, in front of one of his stores, on March 30.

The jury was played the recording of Mr Ingram's 4am call to the emergency services and heard him tell the operator that there was a fight about to occur on the streets of Eastleigh's town centre.

“There's a bloke about to bottle another block outside KFC,” he said in the call made from a nearby alleyway.

“He's told me he's going to knock his brains out.”

Prosecuting council Andrew Langdon QC alleges that just minutes after this call, Sam and Jon bludgeoned Mr Zishan to death in “a prolonged and savage attack” as he walked to his car on his way to work.

Nikki Smith, who was out that night with friends, told the court how the McKinleys approached her group outside the kebab shop, with one holding a bottle of Southern Comfort.

She said the other brother walked up to her flatmate and talked to him with their faces very close together.

“I felt very threatened,” she said.

“They gave us cause to think something might happen.”

Sam NcKinley, 25, of no fixed abode, and Jon, 23, of Devon Drive, Chandler's Ford, both deny murder.

Proceeding.