Overview
- Judge Francis Laird KC dismissed the original panel on the trial's second day and ordered a new jury to hear the case.
- Sam Tweddle, 22, and Stephen Ward, 25, deny murdering 27-year-old Macaulay Branighan, and Ward also denies possessing a machete.
- Prosecutors introduced CCTV and recorded testimony, including footage of Tweddle in a Spar saying, "Macca Branighan's outside."
- The Crown alleges three men chased Branighan from the shop to Westerton Green, where a cyclist swung a machete and a dog was urged on during the attack.
- Branighan suffered stab wounds, severe blood loss and a brain injury and died three days later in hospital.