An off-duty neuroscientist described going to the aid of Jericho ‘murder’ victim Alex Innes.

Qualified clinician Dr Anna Francis was cycling home down Walton Street after a night out seeing friends in London when she saw two police officers as part of a group giving medical assistance to a man on the ground.

It was early hours of November 13 last year and, then unbeknown to Dr Francis, 25-year-old Mr Innes had collapsed to the ground with a stab wound to his chest.

As she cycled down Walton Street, having got back to Oxford on the coach at around 12.30am, she saw someone holding up the head of the man on the ground.

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Thinking ‘something must have happened’ she stopped and wheeled her bicycle over to the group. Of two police officers, the male constable was holding the injured individual’s head, she was to tell police in a statement.

“I said I’m a doctor, can I help?” Dr Francis said in her statement, which was read to jurors at Oxford Crown Court yesterday (May 25).

The doctor said she could not feel a pulse or see that Mr Innes was breathing. When his top was opened, she could see a ‘neat, clean wound’ to the left side of his chest and assisted the police with life-saving attempts.

Other witnesses from whom the jury heard on Thursday spoke of going to Mr Innes’ aid after seeing him collapse to the ground opposite the Oxford University Press building.

Four men deny responsibility for Mr Innes’ death. Greg Muinami, 19, of Cranham Street, Michael Oluyitan, 19, of Waynflete Road, Bradley Morton, 18, of Cumberlege Close, and Keyarno Johnson-Allen, 19, of Furlong Close, deny murder, manslaughter and possession of a bladed article.

The trial continues.

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