THE jury in the George Dore murder trial has been invited by the prosecution to find all three defendants guilty of the charge.
In his closing speech, Simon Kealey QC for the Crown alleged that they were all involved together and afterwards each behaved as if they knew the game was up.
"None of them said that George Dore had attacked them and they were just defending themselves,” Mr Kealey said.
He told Bradford Crown Court it was “a sorry tale” that had ended with the tragic loss of Mr Dore’s life.
He was asleep in bed when the three heavily intoxicated defendants had turned-up with weapons and goaded him on to the street.
Mr Kealey said Leslie Walker stabbed him, Angela Thornton struck him on the back and Anthony Atha gave encouragement.
Walker, 46, and Thornton, 48, both of Nightingale Street, Keighley; and Atha, 53, of West Bank Close in the town, all deny murder. During the trial, the court heard that Mr Dore, 49, was stabbed in the chest during a confrontation outside his house in Fell Lane, Keighley, in the early hours of April 8.
Today, the court will hear closing speeches from the three leading defence barristers.
The trial continues.
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