THE girlfriend of an alleged murder victim has told a court of her desperate efforts to save his life.

Sarah Thompson said she flagged down a white van and a police car after finding Alistair Maddison lying in the road in Chatham on March 30 last year.

Seconds earlier a telephone call had been made to the Mills Terrace house where she had spent the evening with Mr Maddison and friends.

Stevie-Anne Stacey, who had gone with Mr Maddison to deliver drugs to Trevor Brown and Alan Sykes, was said to have shouted down the line that Brown had stabbed him.

Miss Thompson told Maidstone Crown Court: “I picked up a pair of shoes and a coat and ran to the door.”

Miss Thompson said she ran into Magpie Hall Road where she found her boyfriend.

Miss Thompson was giving evidence at the trial of 39-year-old Brown, of Brookmead road, Cliffe, near Rochester, and Sykes, 25, of Johnson Avenue, Gillingham. Both deny murder.

The trial continues.