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3:18pm Wednesday 18th April 2007
TWO Wirral men accused of murdering a man who was pushed from his first floor window have admitted killing him.
Tony McComb and John Morrison had been due to face trial but today, Wednesday, changed their guilty plea to manslaughter was instead accepted by the prosecution.
Mr Justice Silber warned them they will face substantial custodial sentences.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that 46-year-old Kevin Evans lived in a first floor flat in Beech Court, Birkenhead and at the time of the tragedy last September had two friends staying with him.
On September 9, another friend of Mr Evans, David Dillon, was assaulted by McComb, who accused him of damaging his car. He left the scene in Laurel Road, Birkenhead, but returned with another friend and confronted McComb.
Morrison, the brother of McComb's partner, arrived and Mr Dillon left and went to Mr Evans' nearby home. He later left and Mr Evans' two friends subsequently went out but were attacked on the stairwell by McComb, Harrison and another man, who wanted to know where Mr Dillon was.
The couple escaped and the trio went to Mr Evans' flat and inside he was struck suffering bruising to his right eye and bridge of his nose and furniture was damaged, said Charles Chruszcz, QC, prosecuting.
"He was so terrified by the three that he tried to get out of a window in his flat. He was pushed from behind and fell to the ground below," he said.
A friend heard his screams and found him at the rear of the flats in Victoria Road lying with an obviously broken leg. McComb, Harrison and the third man were standing close by but they left when an ambulance arrived.
The victim told police he had been pushed through a window at his home but refused to say anything else. At Arrowe Park Hospital he told friends the three men had threatened and beaten him and he had been pushed out of the window. They threw ornaments and video cases out of the window at him.
He had landed on his feet and suffered fractures to his right ankle and foot and underwent surgery that night. At 10.40 am the next day he stopped breathing and a subsequent post mortem examination revealed he had suffered a pulmonary embolism following the fractures, said Mr Chruszcz.
McComb and Morrison were both arrested and denied being in the flat that day. Morrison said he had been there a few months earlier to complain about his behaviour.
His palm print was found on the window frame through which Mr Evans fell and he said he must have opened the window on the earlier visit.
McComb, 36, of Laurel Road, Tranmere and Morrison, 39, of Harrowby Road, Tranmere, were both further remanded in custody to await sentence on May 3.
Allegations of wounding with intent, aggravated burglary and affray were ordered to lie on the file.
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