THREE alleged killers planned to rob a father of two from Basingstoke - armed with knives, a court has heard.

On Tuesday, November 29, Je Daine Carty, began giving his evidence in his trial at Winchester Crown Court where he stands accused of killing a man in his home in Musgrave Close, Brighton Hill.

Carty has been charged with the murder of Frantisek Olah on Sunday, May 22, along with Ismaila Kamarra-Jarra, of Milton Close, Basingstoke and Cohan Daley, 18, whose address cannot be given for legal reasons.

Laurie Anne Power, defending Carty, told the court that he worked for Mr Olah as a drug runner. Carty, who described Mr Olah as "a friend", would regularly meet him at his home to help wrap drugs.

Carty told the court he was making around £1,200 from selling the drugs while Mr Olah would make around £3,500 a week. 

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Carty said he took over the drugs line but soon became in debt to Mr Olah after breaking two of his scooters valued at £180 each and losing £2,500 worth of drugs seized by police, after they raided an address in Woburn Gardens.

He said: "He was very mad at me and said I should have been smarter, and it was going to have to come out of my pay. He was quite aggressive, and he was trying to show authority. I felt under pressure.”

On the day of Mr Olah’s death, the court heard, that he called Carty several times asking for the money.

Carty continued: “He said I needed to get more money to pay back the debt for the scooters and the drugs. I had been a bit stressed because he kept calling me.

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“When he phoned me and he said some stuff to me, I decided I wanted to rob him.

“I was thinking that we are going around in cycles with no way of paying it off, the phone was not paying it off, I was basically trapped.

“Because on a phone call he was saying that he 'isn’t no little man from Basingstoke', and I was taking him as a joke for longing out the money so then I thought if I robbed him, he would not just take me as a youth from Basingstoke.”

The court heard that Carty asked Kamarra-Jarra, and Daley to help him carry out the robbery, they agreed before arriving at Musgrave Close.

Ms Power asked if they all had knives. Carty answered yes.

Once inside Mr Olah's property, Carty searched the house for money and car keys in the kitchen while Daley and Kamarra-Jarra kept Mr Olah at the front door.

Talking about entering the property, Carty said: "I knocked on the door. We waited for Frantisek to open the door and he then unlocked the door. As soon as he [Mr Olah] opened it I pushed the door open.

"I told him to move aggressively. He was behind the door, from the force of me pushing him he would have been trapped behind the door."

He continued: “I could hear commotion and some tussling. Once I realised the money wasn’t there I searched other cupboards in the kitchen slamming them open and shut.

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“Frantisek was on the floor I asked where the money was and the keys.

“He said he could not breathe, he said he was dying. I realised he was not in a good state so then I said to Kamarra-Jarra and Daley 'lets go' and we ran out the house."

When asked by Ms Power whether he used his knife to stab Mr Olah or knew he had been stabbed, he answered no.

No money or car keys were taken from the property.

In his evidence, Carty also told the court that Daley took a samurai sword into Musgrave Close.

Defending Daley, Andrew Bird KC, told the courtroom that there was never any such sward.

He said: “You tell us that you never saw Daley use a weapon and you never saw IK [Ismaila Kamarra-Jarra] use any sort of weapons and you say you never used a weapon yourself, well you must have missed something as there was a lot of stab wounds.

"I suggest you have invented the samurai sword to try and put some blame on Mr Daley."

Mr Bird went on to say that Carty was the first to stab Mr Olah.

He continued: “You went in first, I am going to suggest that you went in and immediately attacked Olah. Why have you drawn your knife before going in the door?

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“I suggest you pushed open the door and you got in behind the door and you took the first blow with your knife.

“He is then slumped down and it is only after that the other two come into the house."

Mr Bird said Carty was not telling the truth when trying to suggest it was some sort of joint plan to rob Mr Olah.

The trial continues.