A GANG took it in turns to batter Jamie Dack with a baseball bat as the "need to finish him off became a necessity" a court was told today.

The prosecution claim the attack began in the kitchen where there was significant blood staining but there were also drag marks indicating his blood soaked body was dragged from there into the bedroom afterwards.

There, his body was wrapped in a carpet.

Jurors were told how Jamie died from stab wounds to his neck that "would have taken only a few minutes to kill him" but he suffered numerous other knife wounds and had also had bottles thrown at him or smashed in his head.

Mr Fuller told the court: "There wasn't therefore a clean single blow to the head or knife wound, but an assault you can be sure grew in intensity as perhaps any vestige of hesitation to deliver a fatal blow had disappeared and the need to finish him off became a necessity."

He added: "in view of what they had all put Jamie through the day before and the previous violence in the Aldi car park, it would be idle to suggest that these four were acting in any way other than a group, as they had throughout. They we all involved."

The court heard how Nicholls had later that day sent a text message to his girlfriend Amber Patterson, telling her what lengths he would go to to prove his love for her. the court had previously heard how he was enraged by false claims and spurious lies that Jamie had touched her sexually.

Proceeding.