A FATHER of two from Basingstoke was stabbed repeatedly and left to die in his hallway, a court has heard.

As previously reported, police launched a murder investigation following the death Frantisek Olah on Sunday, May 22.

Mr Olah, 31, was found with serious injuries in Musgrave Close, Brighton Hill. He was later pronounced dead.

A post mortem recorded that he had suffered stab wounds.

A trial started at Winchester Crown Court on Monday, October 31.

Three men have been charged with murder - Ismaila Kamarra-Jarra, of Milton Close, Basingstoke; Je Daine Carty, 18, of Ferndown Close, Basingstoke; and Cohan Daley, 18, whose address cannot be given for legal reasons.

Kaysha Saunders, 18, from Highfield Chase, Basingstoke, and Kelsea Byrne, 18, from Warwick Road, Basingstoke, and Abbie Mills, 18, from Woburn Gardens, Basingstoke have been charged with assisting an offender. 

Opening the prosecution's case on Thursday, November 3 prosecutor Sarah Jones KC said Mr Olah was relaxing at home with his partner Chelsey Lee and her young child asleep upstairs when he was attacked.

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She said: "Three men appeared at his door and within an astonishingly short period of time he was lying on the floor of his hallway, just inside his own front door, bleeding to death from numerous stab wounds.

"This case is about how those young men arrived at his door and mercilessly cut him down with apparently little thought for what they were doing, whether they would be caught or whether others were likely to betray them."

Ms Jones said the "speed and ferocity" of the attack suggested it was "an agreed plan".

She told the court that the couple heard a "loud bang" at the door and Mr Olah went to see who it was.

She continued: "Chelsey Lee stayed in the living room but then she heard an even louder bang which made her go and see what was happening.

"She came to the hallway to see her partner laying on the floor and there were three guys. She saw Carty, who she knew as Slim, and he was carrying a black knife. She also saw Ismaila Kamarra-Jarra who also had a knife.

"She said Carty was shouting about keys. She saw Carty stabbing him and Ismaila Kamarra-Jarra was also stabbing him, they were stabbing him repeatedly. It seemed to her that they must have stabbed him about 20 times."

The prosecutor said Mr Olah and Carty knew each other, with the victim having purchased cannabis from the teenager in the past. 

Ms Jones said that Ms Lee said her partner was "surrounded by so much blood she found it hard to approach him".

Ms Jones said the three men "fled the immediate scene of the murder" with the help of their girlfriends of Kaysha Saunders and Kelsea Byrne. While Carty and Kamarra-Jarra fled to Oxford, Daley was later arrested in Southampton.

Ms Jones added: "Ms Byrne drives Ismaila Kamarra-Jarra and Je Daine Carty to Oxford while Ms Saunders arranged their accommodation."

Meanwhile, it is believed that Abbie Mills, who was a girlfriend of one of the men, disposed of a knife, which police later located close to her home address. 

Ms Jones told the court that the men had told a friend in Oxford "that they had killed someone".

"The men made jokes about how the man could not breathe. They said there was a baby in the house and that the woman who was there did nothing, she ran away. They were laughing," Ms Jones prosecuting added.

The trial continues.