An alleged gunman said a QC was talking to him "like a piece of s***" before a murder trial was halted because he had a headache.
Self-confessed drug dealer Rueben Murphy is accused of shooting 26-year-old Patrick Boyle in a Huyton cul-de-sac last summer. Prosecutors allege he carried out a "public execution" on an electric bike, after arguing with an associate of Mr Boyle earlier that day.
But Murphy says at the time Mr Boyle was gunned down he was in a back garden in another part of Huyton, "off me head on ket". He denies knowing or shooting Mr Boyle and has told Liverpool Crown Court: "I might have sold drugs in the past, but I'm not a killer."