AN EYEWITNESS who claimed to have seen ‘about 15 men’ drag a man out of a Blackbird Leys house could not have seen into the home, a court was told.

As the trial into the murder of Christopher Lemonius continued at Oxford Crown Court today, defence barrister Mohammad Hossain, put to one witness – who has been granted anonymity and was referred to as Geoff Smith - that his account was wrong.

Earlier in the trial the witness said that he saw one of the men wield a machete which was stained with blood and saw a ‘mother’ and ‘father’ in their ‘40s, 50s’ watching the unfolding violence from inside the Jourdain Road house.

Yesterday Mr Hossain – who represents Allal Lamzini – one of four defendants charged with perverting the course of justice, maintained that the eyewitness could not see into the house.

He said: “Do you have the problem of telling the truth? Do you think you have told the truth about what you could see inside [the house]?

“Barristers have put to you that you were unable to see inside [the house], do you accept that now?”

The witness stuck to his account and answered: “I did see inside [that house].”

Mr Hossain also put to the witness that he had not been consistent with his accounts between his recollection in court and at police interview. He said that while he had described the older man’s clothing in court last week he had not told police at interview that he was wearing a white T-shirt.

Six men deny murder: Yasine Lamzini, Otman Lamzini, Rashaun Stoute, Yousef Koudoua, Connor Woodward and Carlos Spencer.

Allal Lamzini, Yamina Lamzini, Saffon Fakir, and a 17-year-old boy from Oxford who cannot be named for legal reasons, all deny charges of perverting the course of justice.

The trial continues.