'Defendant admitted killing a man' court is told (From Oxford Mail)

'Defendant admitted killing a man' court is told

8:08pm Thursday 10th December 2009 in

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THE jury in a murder trial yesterday heard how the defendant got into a car and admitted he had just killed a man.

Robert Chin, 43, denies fatally stabbing father-of-nine Devon McPherson in East Oxford on May 18.

Giving evidence on day nine of the trial at Oxford Crown Court, two men, neither of whom can be named for legal reasons, said they regularly bought drugs from Chin, who is also known as Champagne.

On the day of Mr McPherson’s death, the pair were in a car in Oxford with another man and Chin before they drove to London and dropped the defendant off in Shepherd’s Bush, the jury heard.

One of the men, who was sitting next to Chin, said: “He did mention that he believed he had just killed a man.”

The witness’s statement, which was read in court, added: “‘I think I may have killed a guy’, I believe those were the exact words spoken.”

The second witness, who was driving the car, said: “He said he had done somebody.”

Asked by John Price QC, prosecuting, what he understood that to mean, he replied: “That he had stabbed somebody.”

Mr Price asked the witness if he knew who had been stabbed or why. “No,” he replied to both questions.

The trial will resume on Monday.