A Liverpool man accused of beating a dad-of-two to death in a homophobic attack told police he fled the scene because he was carrying drugs.
Jason Edwards, 25, is on trial with Lee William Strickland, 36, and a 17-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, for the murder of Dr Gary Jenkins in a Cardiff park last year.
Dr Jenkins, 54, was "beaten, robbed, tortured, and left for dead" by two men and a teenage girl in Bute Park in what prosecutors allege was a killing motivated by "greed, homophobia, and a straightforward liking for violence".
