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<\/p>\nDylan Blundell is one of five defendants who are currently on trial accused of stabbing 47-year-old Paul Foster to death during a drugs taxing<\/p>\n
Dylan Blundell is accused of the murder of Paul Foster(Image: Facebook)<\/p>\n
A man who is accused of murder has told a court that he fled the city and “ended up smoking monkey dust in Stoke” after learning of an apparent plot to kill him and dump his body in Wales. Paul Foster, who was known as “Pablo”, died aged 47 after suffering a single stab wound to the back during a “taxing”<\/a> on Muirhead Avenue in West Derby<\/a> in the early hours of October 15 2024.<\/p>\n His assailants were said to have been “tooled up” with a knife and an imitation firearm at the time of the robbery, stealing drugs and a quantity of cash from the address before fleeing. Four men and a woman, Elsadig Abrahim, Zayd Alasaly, Dylan Blundell, Michael Fields and Sarah Kasseum, are currently on trial at Liverpool Crown Court<\/a> accused of his murder.<\/p>\n Blundell continued giving evidence to the jury<\/a> for a second day today, Friday. Having earlier told the court that Alasaly had been the man who stabbed Mr Foster after Fields handed him the knife<\/a>, he said that, in the days following the robbery, Kasseum and Fields were “very observant, controlling a little bit” towards him and “keeping an eye on where I’m going, who I’m speaking to and what I’m speaking about”.<\/p>\n Wearing a grey North Face tracksuit top in the witness box, Blundell reported that these two co-defendants who informed him of Mr Foster’s death, leaving him “sobbing his eyes out”. When his counsel Ben Myers KC asked him how he felt at this stage, he replied “dirty innit” and added: “I wasn’t talking about a couple of minutes cry. I’m talking about screaming and carrying on. I was losing the plot, constantly crying.”<\/p>\n Blundell went on to report of a subsequent conversation with Abrahim: “I was told and advised I was getting called a grass because of the way I was acting, and I was told I should get out of Liverpool because there was a plan in place. Ziggy told me. He said he’d heard the others speaking<\/p>\n “He said, if they’re doing you a favour and they’re gonna take you to Widnes<\/a> to see your baby mum, don’t get in the car. I was told there was a plan to take me somewhere like Wales and get rid of my body. This ain’t no laughing game. I’d seen someone that used a knife. He’s not phased by it. This ain’t no joke.”<\/p>\n Blundell stated that he later saw Fields’ car near to the Co-op store on Lawrence Road in Wavertree and said: “I wanted to see the main man himself and ask him the questions. What’s this about wanting to get rid of my body? I’m a grass? I was told it was ok. We’d got away with it. Other people had been arrested.”<\/p>\n Having got into the back of the vehicle, Blundell said that he asked Fields: “What’s this about you calling me a grass and coming up with plans to get rid of me? What’s that all about?”<\/p>\n Asked what Fields had said in response, Blundell told the jury: “Ignore it lad. Don’t worry, we’ve got away with it. People have been nicked.”<\/p>\n However, Blundell said that he then left Merseyside, initially on a train to Manchester, saying in his evidence: “There was a point I ended up getting off. It was only a matter of two, three days before I was getting told be careful, there’s a plan to get shut of you. The police went to my mum’s with forensics asking for clothes. It ended up getting too much for me. I ended up getting off to Stoke.”<\/p>\n Blundell reported that he felt “not safe at all” at this time and, when asked why he had travelled onwards to Stoke, said: “I picked Manchester Piccadilly. I got speaking with these lads. They were going to Stoke. I ended up speaking to them and ended up in Stoke myself.<\/p>\n “I was always used to sitting on the streets. This type of lifestyle weren’t nothing new to me. Hand on heart, I got speaking with this lad. I kind of told him what I was going through. He was a businessman. He left in the end, he left at Stoke.<\/p>\n “I just carried on drinking as much as I could. I’d stay by the Asda<\/a> with a blanket over me. It was freezing. I ended up smoking monkey dust in Stoke. That’s what they’re all on down there. I ended up selling a bit of monkey dust.”<\/p>\n Blundell said that he stayed in Stoke for three days before returning to Liverpool and was then asked about an incident on November 16 2024, when he previously alleged that he had been chased into B&M on Edge Lane<\/a> by Alasaly. However, with his co-accused having been recalled to prison two days before this, he now “accepts that it was not Zayd”.<\/p>\n But Blundell went on to describe how he had been accosted by two men near to the home of a man named Tony Conroy on St Mary’s Close in Wavertree, adding: “I’d seen two lads suited and booted up the road. These were ready.<\/p>\n “You couldn’t see their faces properly. They had these things around their necks. They looked like knives in a sheath. I started running down to the B&M. These have followed me, they’re catching up, a bit of pace.”<\/p>\n Blundell stated that he believed the incident was “definitely something to do with Michael” and, asked why he believed Alasaly had been responsible, he told the court: “There was people speaking around the time. With me getting called a grass, if I was to grass, it would be the Muslim lad. He’d be the one that was coming for me.”<\/p>\n At the close of Mr Myers’ questioning, Blundell went on to allege that Alasaly and Fields had both subjected him to threats during the trial in the process of the three men being transported court. He said of this: “One threat off Zayd was, ‘your little boy’s not gonna be around by the time you come out’. Zayd, I take a threat off very seriously, because I know what he’s capable of. He’ll go to extreme levels. It doesn’t bother him.”<\/p>\n Under cross-examination from Fields’ barrister Paul Bogan KC, Blundell also alleged that his client had “chased him around Lawrence Road in a car with baseball bats”. He added of this: “Ask your client when he got out the car and we had a fight on Lawrence Road.”<\/p>\n Abrahim, aged 61 and of Croxteth<\/a> Road in Toxteth<\/a>, 23-year-old Alasaly, of Corinto Street in Toxteth, 26-year-old Blundell, of Corsewall Street in Wavertree<\/a>, 41-year-old Kasseum, of Lower Breck Road in Anfield<\/a>, and 50-year-old Fields, of no fixed address, all deny murder and possession of a bladed article in a public place. Abrahim, Alasaly and Kasseum have also pleaded not guilty to robbery and carrying an imitation firearm with intent to commit an offence.<\/p>\n However, Blundell and Fields admit these two counts, with the latter having similarly pleaded guilty to manslaughter. 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