Kyle Walley death: Fatal stabbing posted on Snapchat

Kyle Walley was stabbed at his home in Rhosymedre, Wrexham

A man was stabbed though the heart in his flat as he prepared to watch the Euro 2021 final on TV, a murder trial has heard.

Kyle Walley, 19, died on his kitchen floor in Rhosymedre, Wrexham.

Video was filmed just before the fatal attack and posted on social media platform Snapchat, the jury at Mold Crown Court was told.

Mark Harley Jones, also 19, of Chester Road, Wrexham, has admitted killing Mr Walley but denies murder.

Mr Walley had expected to watch the football final between England and Italy on 11 July 2021 with the man he considered to be his friend, Mr Jones, the trial was told.

Mr Jones arrived at Mr Walley's flat at around lunchtime, but by 16:47 BST, before the game had even started, Mr Walley was dead after being stabbed by the defendant.

The jury was shown videos from Mr Jones' Snapchat stories, where he is shown drinking cider and Bourbon at Mr Walley's flat.

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In other footage he made stabbing motions towards Mr Walley while holding a knife when his back was turned.

The court was also shown videos, which were posted online, including one of Mr Walley lying dead while the defendant kicked him, and another where the defendant showed his bloodstained hands to the camera and said he had "stabbed up" Mr Walley and was "going to do time".

Mark Jones arriving at Mold Crown Court

John Philpotts, prosecuting, told the jury that at the time of the knife attack, Mr Walley was on the phone to a friend, Attia Jones, who heard an argument between the two men and Mr Walley shouting "put the knife down".

She then heard Mr Jones shouting "it's my ADHD", followed by screaming.

An acquaintance of Mr Jones, Harry Meadows, had seen the clips on Snapchat in the hours leading up to his death.

It was not the first time, the jury was told, Mr Meadows had seen videos showing Mr Jones with knives, and he had also threatened to kill him in the past.

Mr Philpotts said the prosecution's case was that those clips showed Mr Jones was actively considering stabbing Mr Walley.

Following Mr Walley's death, videos were found on his phone which had been sent by Mr Jones the day before his death, saying "I'm going to kill you" and" I'm going to stab your ear off tomorrow".

The prosecution says Mr Jones could not have made his intentions much clearer.

'Obsession with knives'

The court heard that another friend of Mr Walley's, Morgan Bull, got a message from him on the afternoon of 11 July saying Mr Jones was behaving in a threatening manner with a screwdriver and knife.

He and another friend called the police, and later an ambulance, but Mr Walley could not be saved.

Three young women also saw the Snapchat stories posted by Mr Jones.

One of them, Chloe Thornhill, called the police. Footage of videos deleted from Snapchat were later recovered by police from the phone of another of the women, Charlie Davies.

The house in Rhosymedre cordoned off by police last July

The jury was also told that a young man, Marley Milburn, saw an arm striking a window of the flat holding a kitchen knife and heard shouting.

Later he saw a blood-stained Mr Jones leaving the flat, pushing a bike. He told Mr Millburn he had "stabbed him" and he needed to "run away".

Mr Jones was arrested by police near Wrexham and taken to Maelor hospital to be treated for a cut on his hand.

In hospital, Mr Jones said his "mate" had tried to sleep with a 13-year-old girl, and that was why he had done it.

He also said Mr Walley had stabbed him with a screwdriver after an argument.

Investigating Mr Jones' internet search history after his arrest, Mr Philpotts said it showed an obsession with knives.

Gordon Cole QC, defending Mr Jones, told the jury his client accepted responsibility for Mr Walley's death.

'Deteriorating mental health'

But he said Mr Jones, who has ADHD, PTSD and an emotionally unstable personality disorder, denies murder.

He told the jury that in the weeks leading up to the incident, Mr Jones' mental health had been deteriorating and he had been hearing "unpleasant voices" and "unpleasant mental images", with voices telling him to harm himself and others.

He added that though his memories of 11 July are incomplete, he knows they drank alcohol and that they argued, and there was a time when Mr Walley became aggressive.

Mr Cole said Mr Jones will say it is was Mr Walley who picked up the knife and that Mr Jones grabbed it and struggled, injuring his hand.

He added they would be asking the jury to consider diminished responsibility as a partial defence, as well as loss of control.

The trial continues.