I was scared, says murder accused

PAIR WERE STABBED IN CITY CENTRE FRACAS

- AMY WALKER

A MAN accused of murder has told jurors he was 'scared and shaking' as two groups fought, leading to the death of a man in the city centre.

Hussein Mouhelhel, 22, told jurors he heard his co-accused, Mohammed Al-Enizi Hameed, shout 'kill them' before seeing people running to the canal near to Dale Street in the Northern Quarter.

He claimed that he stood nearby and 'did nothing' during the fracas, in which two men were stabbed.

Ahmed Alsharan, 33, was stabbed in the heart and pushed into the canal near Dale Street in the city centre where he was said to have been drinking coffee - in August last year. He climbed out of the canal before going back to Dale Street where he collapsed, it was said. He received open heart surgery at the scene but died later, a jury has been told. His friend Sami Alhaj was also stabbed but survived, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.