ONE of the men accused of beating Christopher Lemonius to death was left bleeding in an attack just weeks before the killing, a court heard yesterday.

Six Oxford men all deny murdering the 27-year old near Jourdain Road on June 1 last year – Yasine Lamzini, Otman Lamzini, Rashaun Stoute, Yousef Koudoua, Connor Woodward and Carlos Spencer.

As the trial at Oxford Crown Court continued yesterday, Karen Curtis told the jury of seven women and four men she witnessed Yasine Lamzini heavily bleeding following an altercation outside her home on May 18, 2017.

Ms Curtis said she had known the 20-year-old for more than a decade as he and her son were friends through football and he was a ‘welcome visitor’.

She described how he had left her house at around 4.30pm and as she sat in the living room she noticed him with another man on the street outside her house.

Questioned by prosecutor Stuart Trimmer QC, she said it looked at first like the pair were talking.

She added: “When I next looked up they were pushing each other.”

Worried a fight was about to break out, she told the court she rushed to get her partner from the back garden.

When she returned, Ms Curtis said: “It looked as if he (Lamzini) was staggering, he was holding his left arm.”

Mr Trimmer asked her about the extent of the injury, to which she said: “There was blood coming out of his jacket. It was pumping out.”

She said Lamzini never told her who was responsible for the injury.

Previously in the trial, prosecution outlined how they believe Mr Lemonius died as a result of hostility between two groups and that he was chased by the defendants through Blackbird Leys park from the Premier Store in Pegasus Road to Jourdain Road.

Earlier in the day, Julie O’Dong, who lived at Jourdain Road at the time and said she witnessed the men beating Mr Lemonius with golf clubs and wood, continued giving evidence under cross examination from barristers defending the men.

Mozammel Hossain, representing Allal Lamzini, 69, who is charged along with Yamina Lamzini, 57, both of Jourdain Road, Oxford, of one count of perverting the course of justice, questioned the trustworthiness of her testimony though she defended her account.

He said: “I would suggest that you were guessing about a large part of what you say you saw.”

Mr Hossain pointed to details over where the light was coming from that only appeared when she gave evidence in court.

He added: “I suggest that everything you say that takes place in the garden is just pure and simple lies.”

Ms O’Dong responded: “I wish it was but it wasn’t.”

She insisted there had been ‘no animosity’ between herself and the defendants and it would make no sense for her to lie about seeing them.

She added: “I know 100 per cent what I saw I just didn’t want to be a part of it.”

Saffon Fakir, 26, of Territorial Way, Oxford, and a 17-year-old boy from Oxford who cannot be named for legal reasons, also deny one count of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

The trial continues.