MURDER TRIAL: Jury told of eight inch deep neck wound (From thisisoxfordshire)

MURDER TRIAL: Jury told of eight inch deep neck wound

6:40am Thursday 10th December 2009

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A PATHOLOGIST yesterday described how an eight-inch-deep stab wound to the neck caused the death of an East Oxford drug dealer.

Dr Nathaniel Cary told Oxford Crown Court Devon McPherson had been stabbed three times – in the leg, chest and neck.

Mr McPherson staggered into The Regal nightclub, in Magdalen Road, while bleeding from the neck before collapsing and dying on May 18.

CCTV footage previously seen by the jury shows a man, said to be Mr McPherson after the attack, cycling down Magdalen Road, past The Regal, before returning to the nightclub on foot. No blood was found on the bike, which was left abandoned in Ridgefield Road.

Dr Cary said one wound – which passed underneath Mr McPherson’s jawbone and through his jugular vein before penetrating over an inch into a lung – caused the death of the 42-year-old from Divinity Road, East Oxford.

Despite the stab wounds, Dr Cary said it was possible Mr McPherson had managed to cycle away from the SS Mary and John churchyard, where the prosecution says he was stabbed, without leaving blood stains on his bike.

He said: “He would have been quite capable of doing it having already sustained a fatal stab wound in the neck.”

Robert Lee Chin, 49, of no fixed address, denies murdering Mr McPherson.

The trial continues.

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