The court heard that the man stabbed his neighbor to death and then sat on his body and lit a “victorious” cigarette.
Can the jury attack three fathers, Matthew Bourman, when Arslan returns home from work?
According to prosecutors, 52-year-old Arslan exposed his neighbor to years of intimidation and abuse and was charged with harassment a week before the attack last October.
According to the jury, he accused the residents of Walton Cardiff, Gloucestershire, for trying to drive him out and told police to sort out Mr. Bourman himself.
The next day he repeatedly stabbed the victim’s head and neck.
Mr. Bourman’s wife Sarah saw Arslan passing through the kitchen window and told the jury that he thought he was hitting her husband.
But when she went to help, she saw him holding a knife.
“Arslan treated Matthew like a piece of meat. He sat on him and lit a cigarette as if he had won,” she said.
After the attack, she added that Arslan roamed “accidentally” while engineer Bourman, 43, was dying.
“He was calm. He knew what he was doing. He got a lot of attention,” she said.
She shouted for help, and Arslan swiped her with a knife, leaving a deep scar on her thigh, the Criminal Court of Bristol heard.
Her top child saw his father’s bloody body through his window, and “can’t get it out of his head,” she said.
The court then heard that Arslan broke into the house of his neighbor Peter Marsden and hit him with a knife eight times.
According to prosecutor Kate Bruner QC, he returned to Boulevard, and his neighbor, who was conducting CPR, moved the victims in case Arslan targeted him again.
She told the court that he was eventually overwhelmed by the inhabitants armed at the golf club.
When police arrived, Arslan’s wife, Louise, threw water at them, said neighbor Elizabeth Stock.
Turkey-born Arslan has denied murder. He claims he was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the attack.
The trial will continue.
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