Brother saw bloody knife, court told

Ross Parker was beaten and stabbed

A man accused of stabbing to death a teenager was cleaning blood from a knife only minutes after the attack, his brother told a court.

Ross Parker, 17, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, was walking home with his girlfriend when he was attacked by a gang of four Asians, Northampton Crown Court heard.

Stephen Coward QC, prosecuting, said the gang sprayed aerosol in his eyes and punched, kicked and hit the teenager with a panel-beater's hammer before they stabbed him.

Shaied Nazir, 21, Ziaraff Mahrad, 21, Ahmed Ali Awan, 22, and Sarfraz Ali, 25, of Peterborough, all deny murder.

Ahmed Ali Awan: Said he had "stabbed someone"

Mr Nazir's younger brother Wyed, 18, said he found his brother and Awan at the kitchen sink cleaning blood from a hunting knife.

He said Mr Awan told him that they had been in a fight and that he had stabbed someone.

He said that both men had blood on their clothing as did the two other defendants who were in a shed at the brothers' Peterborough home.

Blood-stained

Mr Coward said that in a shed near one of the defendant's homes police found a bag containing blood-stained clothing.

They also found a hammer, which had edges matching the type of injuries Ross sustained, and a knife identical to the one with which he was stabbed.

Some of the clothing contained blood that matched Ross's DNA.

The case was adjourned until Friday.