Shane Watson murder suspect 'boasted about attack as photos handed round'
Photographs of a murder suspect urinating on his victim were shown to revellers at a house party soon after the killing, a court was told.
Shylon Wishart allegedly "boasted" about attacking Shane Watson, who a court heard had refused to hand over a cigarette at the end of a night out in Sedgley.
Murder jurors heard that Wishart and James Cartwright, who has admitted murder, arrived at a house party in nearby Bilston Street soon after the killing on July 28.
Giving evidence at Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday, Shannon Walker, who was at the party, said when Wishart and Cartwright arrived, they were telling people they had "knocked out Shane".
"They said they took his clothes off and urinated on him and they took his phone, his keys and his money," she added.
When asked by Mr Peter Grieves-Smith, prosecutor, if they said if anything else was physically done to Mr Watson, Miss Walker responded: "They pushed their thumbs into his eyes."
Miss Walker said the pair told how during the attack, they had thrown 23-year-old Mr Watson's clothes over a garden.
When asked if they had said why the attack happened, she said: "I think it was all over cigarettes and Shane would not give them one."
Miss Walker told jurors that she was shown "three or four" photographs by Cartwright during the party. She added: "Shane was lying there naked on one, then Shylon was urinating on him on one, and there was one picture of their shoes covered in blood."
Miss Walker said she also saw Cartwright with a mobile phone belonging to debt collector Mr Watson. She explained that it was being passed between him and Wishart, and that when Mr Watson's girlfriend, Kelly Handley, called the phone, Cartwright answered and said Mr Watson was "in the alley".
Mr Watson was discovered in an alleyway off Springfield Grove during the early hours of July 28, having earlier been in Monty's Bar, in High Street, Sedgley. He died from head and facial injuries. It was alleged he was stripped as part of the attack.
Cartwright, aged 18, of Sandyfields Road, has admitted murder. Wishart, 19, of North Springfield, denies the same charge.
The trial against him continues.
