A MAN said he heard a number of loud bangs shortly after two drug dealers left the flat he was at, a court heard.

George O'Donoghue had been drinking all day when he went to a friend's flat in Abingdon on the evening of November 3 last year.

A jury of seven women and five men at Oxford Crown Court heard the home in Brampton Close was behind Thornhill Walk, where Kerry Reeves was shot at about 8pm that night.

Mr O'Donoghue told the court today he arrived at the flat to find heroin dealers Billy Johnson and Charles Noble, who he knew as CJ and Dillon.

Johnson and Noble both denying shooting Miss Reeves.

Mr O'Donoghue said "Dillon" left to go home but ran back into the flat saying the police were there and the pair ran back outside one after the other.

He added: "Dillon came running back saying 'the police, the police'.

"That got me shook up. Then Dillon left, and CJ was stood near the door. Then he left."

He told the court how he heard two or three loud bangs, then he and his friends left the flat 15 minutes or so later.

But Mr O'Donoghue admitted he could not remember how long after 20-year-old Johnson and 21-year-old Noble left he had heard the loud bangs and said he thought they were fireworks.

Miss Reeves was shot once in the face at close range with a shotgun and died from her injury at the John Radcliffe hospital two days later.

The court heard the 26-year-old and her friend Craig Pitts had been armed with baseball bats and looking for the drug dealers - who they had an ongoing feud with - on the night she was shot.

Johnson, of Ripon Court, Corby, Northants, and Noble, of Kempton Avenue, Northolt, Ealing, both deny murdering Miss Reeves.