Blood diluted in the kitchen where teenager Oldbury Jahziah Coke found dead “suggest cleaning attempts”, the court heard

Jahziah Coke was stabbed in the stomach and chest and was found dead on the hall of a house in Oldbury of paramedics who respond to a call 999 in the after -the day of August 29 last year.

A boy accused of killing Jahziah and a 40 -year -old man accused of helping him to evade police until their arrest three days after Jahziah died, he is in court at the trial Wolverhampton Crown Court – but none can be appointed for legal reasons.

A second boy, who is supposed to have fled the incident with the defendant and also cannot be called, was accused of murder, but the case against him was abandoned before the trial started last week.

The court heard on Wednesday that the blood stains found in the property, which cannot be identified due to a court ordinance, after Jahziah was found dead at the bottom of the stairs, suggested that there was an “altercation” on one of the bedrooms.

Senior Criminal Science Man Gillian O’Boyle, whose expertise includes the analysis of the blood model and stage exams, said it was blood on a damaged sleeping door, which came out of the hinges, on the banister on the landing and on the stairs.

She said that it is “possible” that everything happened to lead to bleeding happened in the door of the bedroom.

She said: “In my opinion, most of them, if not all the blood can be explained by someone or something wet, with blood that moves around the landing land, right inside the door to a back bedroom, on the scale and with contact with various areas of these address areas.”

Mrs. O’Boyle also noted how she found blood that was diluted on a seat in the property.

She said that an explanation for the presence of diluted blood is that “in this area there was an attempt to clean something, or someone wet with blood.”

The court previously said that the defendant and the other boy fled from the place of the incident on the fences before catching a bus to a friend’s house, where they became “stressed and sweat”.

The woman, who also cannot be called, said that the defendant used the phone to look at the train tickets to Paris and became emotional when he told him that someone sent Snapchat to say that Jahziah was dead.

She said police In a registered interview that the defendant claimed that he and Jahziah fought, tried to twist his knife and that Jahziah had been stabbed in this process.

She said that Jahziah threw on the floor and got back, but he didn’t remember what the boy told about how the second stinging wound took place.

The process continues.