A MAN has told a court how he called 999 after finding an older man with blood beneath his head following an alleged altercation last year.

Nicholas Start told Winchester Crown Court yesterday (FRI) he heard raised voices at Rockley Park in Poole, on May 7 last year, after returning from a night out.

The incident resulted in the death of Kenneth Dickie a week later. Thirty-five-year-old Jamie Mitchell, of Apple Close in Poole – the son of Mr Dickie’s partner Samantha Mitchell, 58 – denies manslaughter.

Mr Start said he saw Mr Dickie “motionless” on the floor, jumped over his balcony railings and ran towards Mr Dickie.

“I could see a small pool of blood coming from the back of his head. There was enough lighting to see that from 10 feet away,” he said.

Jamie and Samantha Mitchell had then gone back into their unit, he said, where he heard more raised voices. He then claimed he called the police.

“I stayed with them him throughout until park security and police arrived,” he said. “You don’t run away from someone who has fallen; you stay and help them.”

He said that before police arrived Jamie Mitchell came back out and tried to wake Mr Dickie.

The trial continues.