A murder trial jury considering the case of a Deeside man alleged to have killed a Liverpool drug supplier has been sent home for the night.

Leslie Peter Baines, 48, of Kings Road in Connah’s Quay, denies murdering Matthew Cassidy, 19, of Huyton, Liverpool, at a block of flats in Connah’s Quay, on May 29 last year.

Mr Justice Clive Lewis completed his summing up at Mold Crown Court before lunchtime on Tuesday.

Members of the jury spent the afternoon considering the case and have now been sent home by the judge to return in the morning.

Co-defendant David John Woods, 20, of Douglas Place in Liverpool, the leader of a rival drugs gang, changed his plea to guilty of murder last week and had also admitted doing acts intending to pervert the course of justice by providing police with false telephone evidence in a bid to blame it all on Baines.

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