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Murder trial hears of horrific injuries
A MURDER trial has been told of the horrifying catalogue of nearly 100 injuries inflicted on a 59-year-old Grange Park man.
Home Office pathologist Dr Brian Rogers was giving evidence at the Preston Crown Court trial of Jordan Janukowicz, 19.
Janukowicz denies murdering Anthony Newman at a flat they shared in Furness Court, Grange Park, on August 17 last year. Janukowicz was friends with Mr Newman through their involvement with the Jesus Army religious group.
The court heard how paramedics found Mr Newman's battered body with a belt fastened tight around the neck.
Crown counsel Howard Bentham asked Dr Rogers to catalogue the internal and external injuries Mr Newman had sustained in the attack, which is alleged to have happened after a row during an early hours drinking session.
They included fractured facial bones, injuries from possibly being whipped with a belt, 15 broken ribs, a ruptured liver and damaged kidneys, said Dr Rogers.
There was also internal and external damage to his throat suggesting he had been strangled with the belt, he said.
A bundle of twigs which had been taped together and placed in a loop of the belt, possibly for use as some kind of tourniquet, was too fragile to exert much force, he said.
Dr Rogers said blood in Mr Newman's lungs and stomach could have meant he was still alive between sustaining the head injuries and the chest injuries.
He told the jury: "Death came as a result of a combination of these injuries."
He added the cause of death was severe neck, chest and abdominal injuries.
The court had earlier heard evidence from Det Con John White, of Blackpool police, who interviewed Janukowicz twice on the day of the murder.
Transcripts of the interviews were heard in which Janukowicz said he remembered grabbing Mr Newman after Mr Newman threw a lamp at his foot and calling the ambulance later on.
Despite being pressed by the interviewing detectives, he could remember nothing in between.
He told them of two other "blackouts" he had suffered in the months before the attack, and said he was examined by a neurologist after the second.
He denied being anything other than friends with Mr Newsman, whom he knew to be gay.
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