“What are we going to do about what’s just happened?”
A man accused of murdering Ormskirk teenager Matthew Daulby told a friend he ‘loves a good straightener’, in the aftermath of a fatal street brawl, a court heard.
Cook told the court at that stage he did not know anyone had been seriously injured. He said that at around midnight he had left the other two men in an alley and was walking towards the Lime Tiger when he passed the Maghull group.Cook said he did not know what the men were referring to, and just wanted to get on with his night out. “I didn’t want to start pressing buttons”, he said. He told the court he carried on walking and only turned back when he heard a commotion behind him.
He insisted at no point was he holding a knife and did not see anyone from either group carrying a weapon. Following the brawl, Cook returned to the Alpine Bar before going to a friend’s flat in Ormskirk. In a series of messages with a member of the Maghull group, who he said he had always been on good terms with, he said:
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