A WITNESS yesterday told a jury that a teenage murder suspect was definitely the person who fatally stabbed a man outside an Oxford nightspot.

Monica Thomas told Oxford Crown Court that victim Blayne Ridgway told her: “What, you think man don’t know who done this?” indicating he knew who had stabbed him, before collapsing outside Que Pasa in Queen Street on May 8.

A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, denies a charge of murder.

Miss Thomas, who said she saw the incident in the bar’s smoking area, told jurors: “He (the defendant) approached Blayne. It was like a barge approach.

“Blayne backed off and put his hand up like ‘what?’ kind of thing.”

She added: “(The defendant) barged through one or two people who were passing on the outside (of the smoking area).

“It looked like he punched Blayne, but it was a very weak punch, his hand wasn’t in a position of a punch, basically.”

She added: “He (the defendant) just flicked up his hood and barged out.”

Asked how 22-year-old former Peers School pupil Mr Ridgway reacted, Miss Thomas said: “I don’t think he realised he had been stabbed straight away.

“He tried to lift his top and said ‘what, you think man don’t know who done this?’. It means ‘you think I don’t know who done this’.

“He tried to lift his T-shirt up but he didn’t lift it up further than his belly button. You could see the blood was already down on his trainers and making a puddle on the floor. After he said that he just dropped to the floor.”

Miss Thomas, who knew the defendant and Mr Ridgway, added: “You could see already no-one could touch him, it was already gone too far to help him.”

Under cross examination, she admitted not seeing a blade but said the defendant’s movements “were like he had a knife”.

She also denied the defence’s suggestion there was any prior verbal aggression or pushing and shoving between the two men.

Another witness Lorisa Brown, known as “Little”, told jurors she was standing outside when she heard people shouting.

She said: “Then I just saw someone throw their hood up and run down the road, then everyone else started screaming and shouting.”

She said she thought the person running away was the defendant but could not be sure. After being allowed to re-read her police statement, Miss Brown recalled Mr Ridgway’s last words.

She said: “He said ‘man stabbed me and what, must think I don’t know who man is’ then he fell to the floor.”

The trial, and Miss Brown’s evidence, continues today.