The jury in the trial of four men accused of beating to death a father-of-five outside a Leicester pub is due to retire today to consider its verdict after hearing four weeks' of evidence.
Steve McKinnon, of Uppingham Road, Leicester, suffered severe head injuries in the attack, outside the Durham Ox pub, in Belgrave, in the early hours of June 6 last year.
The 44-year-old died two days later, having failed to regain consciousness.
Four men accused of Mr McKinnon's murder are on trial at Nottingham Crown Court.
Eugene Bell (29), of Helmsley Road, Leicester; Ross Lowndes (27), of Windley Road, Leicester; Gurdev Sangha (24), of Overdale Avenue, Glenfield; and Phillip Merry (28), of Pinewood Avenue, Thurmaston, all deny the charge.
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Three of the defendants also deny assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Cortney Hughes-Smith, Mr McKinnon's teenage stepson, in the same incident. Lowndes was found not guilty of the charge against Mr Hughes-Smith earlier this month.
The Honourable Mr Justice Ian Dove, the judge presiding over the case, is expected to conclude his summing up of the evidence this morning, before the jury retires to begin its deliberations.
