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The jury is not sitting on the Redditch murder trial today.

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However, we are still able to bring you some details from the opening of the case which was delivered by Michael Burrows QC who is prosecuting the murder. Today we focus on the arrests of the three men on trial for the murder and their interviews with police.

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Colton Bryan, 22 (pictured above left) died of his injuries after he was stabbed with a nine inch hunting knife at his flat in Guinness Close, Redditch shortly after 9.15pm on July 15 last year.

The man who is believed to have carried out the fatal stabbing - Mohammed Hammad Hussain - is said to have fled to Pakistan on the earliest flight he could board and is still being sought by the authorities.

Adam Carpenter, 21, of Wharrington Hill, Redditch, Faisal Fiaz, 21, of Millsbro Road, Redditch and Mohammed Saddam Hussain, 25, of Oakfield Avenue, Birmingham (Hammad Hussain's brother) are on trial at Worcester Crown Court.

The jury has been told how Saddam Hussain was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday, July 22 at his home at Oakfield Avenue, Balsall Heath, in Birmingham.

Mr Burrows told the panel: "He was questioned over three days. He was asked whether he knew Colton Bryan and whether he had taken his brother to Birmingham Airport and Gatwick Airport on July 16 and whether he had arranged the flight.

"He was asked whether he knew Adam Carpenter and Faisal Fiaz and whether he had been in Adam Carpenter's white Skoda and whether Faisal Fiaz had been in his Suzuki. "He was asked about his phones and his contact with Adam Carpenter and Faisal Fiaz, in particular, those just before and after the murder and with Adam Carpenter when he was in Weston-Super-Mare.

"To all questions, he chose to make no comment. But at the end of the interviews on the second day, he was asked if he wanted to say anything. He said I deny any involvement in this murder and he also denied that he was involved in any planned robbery."

Carpenter was arrested on July 18 last year. Mr Burrows said: "I understand that he accepts he was with Hammad Hussain and Faisal Fiaz and that they planned to steal cannabis and cash from Colton Bryan. He accepts that Hammad Hussain was the masked man who stabbed Colton Bryan and he accepts that he drove the blood-stained Hammad Hussain back to Birmingham.

Mr Burrows said: "But when questioned he did not say a word about that in interview. Rather, essentially, he too chose to make no comment."

Fiaz was arrested on July 21 last year. He was taken first to Redditch police station and then to Worcester police station where he was put in a holding cell awaiting interview.

Mr Burrows said: "Whilst in the cell he told a police officer he had information to help police and that the person murdered was his friend and lived, as he put it, “four doors down”.

"He was interviewed. He explained that he knew Colton Bryan. They grew up together and used to live in the same road, Millsbro Road, where Faisal Fiaz still lived, about 1.5 miles from Guinness Close.

"He said he had been round to Colton Bryan’s flat in Guinness Close once, a couple of weeks ago. He said Adam Carpenter took him there.

"He said Adam Carpenter had told him about Colton Bryan being attacked and that the attacker had slashed Colton’s hand."

Mr Burrows added: "He said Adam Carpenter was scared that the police would think he was involved and that they would want his phone. He said he asked Adam Carpenter what he was going to tell the police and told him to keep his phone on him. He told the police that he was due to fly out to Pakistan and that he had got a flight booked from Heathrow the next day. He said his uncle had booked that for him."

The trial continues.