Carl Tindall manslaughter trial: 'Bang and that was it' - Witness tells of lethal punch
A witness has told a jury how he heard a 'bang' as a punch landed on a man who later died in hospital.
Carl Tindall, 35, of Brocton, Stafford, died on August 24, 2015 after being found in Cull Avenue in the town two days before.
Jamie Sleigh, of St John's Road, Cannock, is standing trial accused of manslaughter at Stafford Crown Court but denies the charge.
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Anthony Boddison, of St Peter's Gardens, Stafford, and sisters Sarah Hurmson, of Greig Court, Heath Hayes, and Louise Hurmson, of Avenue Road, Heath Hayes, deny assisting an offender.
The court heard yesterday that witness John Barlow had returned to his home in Plant Crescent, Stafford, after seeing friends on the evening of August 22.
Mr Barlow told the jury that he saw a man he had never seen before walking quickly towards a house further down the road.
To demonstrate the type of noise he had heard, Mr Barlow then twice hit the microphone he was speaking into.
Mr Tindall had earlier been drinking in Stafford on August 22 after he heard allegations his girlfriend, Sarah Hurmson, 36, had been sleeping with her sister's boyfriend, Boddison, 26.
Sarah Hurmson, her sister Louise Hurmson, 32, and Boddison had earlier been drinking at the Crystal Fountain pub in St John's Road, Cannock, with Sleigh, 36.
They had then returned to the house in Plant Crescent.
Mr Barlow said Mr Tindall had not knocked on the door but that it was opened for him before he was punched.
He said: "He got to the door, the door was opened and he was smacked."
But Mr Mark Nicholls, representing Boddison, queried Mr Barlow's evidence.
Mr Barlow had earlier told police last year that he had seen Mr Tindall pace up and down the pavement outside the house he was to walk up to with a mobile phone in his hand.
But Mr Nicholls played CCTV footage recorded by Mr Barlow on cameras outside his house, which showed he was carrying nothing.
Mr Nicholls asked him: "Do you accept you might be wrong about that?"
"I might be wrong," Mr Barlow replied.
The trial continues.
