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Jury in murder trial continues to hear police interviews

This afternoon the jury is hearing more interviews between police and a Castletown man accused of murder.

Forty-six-year-old Ian Anderson denies murdering 60-year-old Neil Roberts from Ballabeg.

Mr Roberts's body was found by police at Mr and Mrs Anderson's Castletown home in late 2013.

The prosecution called Detective Constable Nick Haxby to the witness box who has been reading the initial interviews with Mr Anderson from December 2013.

DC Haxby is reading his part as the interviewer while Linda Watts, prosecuting, is reading the part of Mr Anderson.

Mr Anderson describes the sequence of events on the evening of November 30th and the early hours of December 1st, when the alleged murder took place.

Jurors heard Mr Anderson explain Neil Roberts attacked him in three separate onslaughts, he had said he was "fighting for his life".

DC Haxby will finish reading the interview transcripts at Douglas Courthouse this afternoon.

 

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