ACCUSED Kobe Murray was giving his version of events this morning (February 1) as the Ryan Passey murder trial continued.

Relatives from both families had packed into the courtroom at Birmingham Crown Court to hear trainee plasterer Murray, aged 19, of The Broadway, Dudley, give his account of what happened the night 24-year-old Ryan was killed in Chicago's in Stourbridge.

Wearing a dark grey suit and tie - the teenager, who has denied murder, calmly told the jury he had grabbed the knife from his friend Bradley Hackett's hand as trouble flared between two groups in the Ryemarket club.

The whole incident unfolded in seconds, he said, and when asked by defence solicitor James House QC whether he meant to harm, seriously injure or kill anyone - he replied "no".

He said he snatched the weapon from Brad's hand as he thought "it was a stupid thing to have" in the nightclub and as punches were being thrown he pushed forwards with both hands out of "fear"...adding that he was trying "to get the person as far away as I could".

He confessed he "felt the knife go in" and he added: "I felt bone."

He said what happened after was something of a "blur" but he remembers telling his friend Ethan Jones that they needed to leave - adding: "I just panicked and said we need to go."

He said after exiting the club he asked his friend Brad why he'd had a knife with him and claimed Brad responded: "I'm sorry - it's all my fault."

He admitted saying he had stabbed someone and that he didn't mean to.

The three friends then drove to Dudley where Murray discarded the knife in bushes in Cochrane Road.

He claimed Brad told him he should get rid of his phone and clothes and that he offered to do it for him.

Earlier he'd told the jury the knife had been bought by Brad a week earlier - from D.A.I Leisure near Merry Hill.

He said: "I asked him why he'd bought it and he said it was because his grandad fishes. I thought nothing of it."

He denied claims by prosecution solicitor Phil Bradley QC that he had asked Brad to buy the knife on his behalf. He said he'd never asked him to buy a knife.

He also claimed Brad had shown off the knife to a couple of friends in a car journey home after they'd been shopping at Merry Hill.

He said that was the only time he'd seen the weapon, a black and silver flick knife, before the night self-employed window cleaner Ryan was stabbed to death on August 5 2017.

Earlier in the hearing - Home Office pathologist Dr Alexander Kolar confirmed popular footballer Ryan of Quarry Bank had died from a stab wound to the chest, caused by a sharp tipped object, which penetrated the heart.

The prosecution claims Murray, a keen footballer and a man of previous good character, "drove the knife into Ryan Passey deliberately with the intention to cause serious harm".

Mr Bradley, prosecuting, told Murray: "There was nothing to stop you just stepping away and just pushing somebody aside."

Murray replied: "Thinking about it maybe yes."

When asked whether he'd been holding the knife previously in the club, as suggested by witness Brad Maslen-Jones, Murray said he'd been holding a phone as he insisted the knife was not his.

Defence witness Adam Waring of Dudley concurred with Murray's account that Bradley Hackett had bought the knife a week earlier and had shown it off during a car journey after a shopping trip at Merry Hill on July 29.

Mr Hackett earlier this week denied he had bought the knife for himself, saying Murray had asked him to buy it. 

The prosecution, however, told the court Murray had been "trying to deflect attention by trying to blame Bradley for taking the knife into the club".

The trial continues.