Jurors told how aunt of stabbed man screamed: 'He's dead"

Jurors in the trial of Junior Suleimane, who is accused of murdering Felizardo Jose Vieira-Balde in Great Yarmouth, heard how witnesses came across the deceased's aunt in the street.

Norwich Crown Court was told two women, who had earlier seen Mr Vieira-Balde as he "staggered across the road" as if he were drunk, followed a "large spots of blood".

Norwich Crown Court (Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest) In written evidence heard on Monday they said they had a "bad feeling about it" and decided to follow the trail along Wellington Road towards St Peter's Road.

They heard a female "screaming" behind them and as they got to the woman they saw a man on his back down an alleyway.

The woman, who said she was the man's aunt, was Portuguese and spoke little English but said "he's dead, he's dead".

When they went down the alleyway the women recognised it was the same man they had earlier seen staggering across the road.

Police on scene after the fatal stabbing (Image: Newsquest) He was lying among bin bags and had "blood all over his mouth and nose".

One of the women said there was "tonnes of it".

They said the man's eyes were "open and he was staring into space".

The court has been told Mr Vieira-Balde, who suffered a single stab wound to the chest, was attacked by Suleimane as revenge for an attack he had suffered a month earlier.

Jurors also heard on Monday how James Harding, a duty manager at the town's Marina Centre, appeared on the scene to provide CPR before the emergency services arrived.

Police on scene after the fatal stabbing (Image: Newsquest) In a statement he said he had been working at the centre on February 8 last year and doing a first aid training course when a regular customer came in shouting that "someone has been stabbed".

Mr Harding said he saw Mr Vieira-Balde lying on his left side with "a lot of blood coming from his nose".

Forensic officers on scene after the fatal stabbing (Image: Newsquest) Mr Harding, who was looking to start CPR on the man, said his "eyes were wide open" and he was "unresponsive".

He commenced CPR until police and ambulance staff arrived.

Suleimane, formerly of Market Place, Yarmouth, has gone on trial having denied murder.

The trial continues.