DAY THREE: First police officer on the scene, Sgt Ron Peach reveals Paul Rodgers was already dead by the time he reached Broadcloth Lane. He said: "His eyes were open, his mouth was open and he wasn't moving. He had blood to the left side, there was blood on the floor and blood on his lip." Sgt Peach said Page made "rambling" confessions in the police car.

PC Elizabeth Millington describes how she sealed off Page's Magnolia Rise home and found a bloodstained knife in the kitchen sink.

A statement by Wiltshire Ambulance Technician Arthur Webb confirmed Mr Rodgers died at the scene.

DC Chris Conway read out Page's two police interviews from May 5 and 6. Page told officers the stabbing was in self-defence. He said: "I can remember lunging to keep him away, I don't know if I made contact or not. I wasn't sure if I stabbed him or not. I felt terrified." In a second interview, Page admitted he picked up two knifes, including a serrated bread knife found down a storm drain and a meat knife used to stab Mr Rodgers.

Prosecution case closes.

DAY FOUR: Murder suspect Leigh Sebastian Page takes the stand. Page told the jury he felt 'anxious, afraid and annoyed' by Mr Rodgers' repeated threats and grabbed the bread knife to frighten him off. After being disarmed, Page said he felt afraid in his own home and took a second knife from the kitchen. The care worker admits "lunging" at Mr Rodgers after falling to the ground in Broadcloth Lane but did not realise the knife made contact. He said: "I waved the knife at Paul to keep him back. All the time he is coming towards me and I am backing away. I turned to move away again and I sort of lunged my hand out. I wasn't aware of any contact."

Prosecutor Sarah Monro said Page had formed 'an intention to seriously injure' Mr Rodgers in a calculated revenge bid.

DAY FIVE: Neighbour Nicholas Humphries describes seeing Page and Mr Rodgers moving around an MJB taxi. Mr Humphries said Page was "urgently and frantically" trying to get into the cab with Mr Rodgers acting as the aggressor.

Neighbour Zoe Reeves said the scene outside her home was "bedlam" in the minutes leading up to the stabbing. Miss Reeves said she heard comments including 'he's a psycho', 'I'm going to kill you' and 'he's got a knife' but was not able to pinpoint who said what.

Jamie Alford, also a neighbour, said he heard death threats hurled at Page coming from a man in the front garden. Mr Alford ran into the street and caught up with Page in Broadcloth Lane moments after the stabbing. Telling his neighbour to go home, Mr Alford said he saw the body of Mr Rodgers on the road but walked back towards Magnolia Rise because there was 'nothing he could do.'

In a statement Gillian Walsh described seeing two men moving around a taxi from her Lavender Close home. Hearing someone shout 'call the police' she dialled 999.

In another statement, the jury heard how Mr Rodgers almost sparked a fight over a spilt drink earlier in the evening in Trowbridge snooker bar, Terry's.

Prosecutor Sarah Monro sums up the Crown's case branding Page's self-defence bid as "wholly excessive." Miss Monro said alcohol and a planned revenge bid played a part in Page's attack on the father-of-four. "He (Page) was affected by drink, he was in a temper and he probably had revenge on his mind. He was acting in an entirely controlled way, making decision after decision," she said. "The knife was bound to cause really serious bodily injury as you may think any stab is bound to do." Miss Monro said Mr Rodgers 'never laid a finger' on Page during the incident.

Defence barrister Oba Nsugbe QC told jurors to throw out any feelings of sympathy and weigh-up the case dispassionately. Mr Nsugbe said Mr Rodgers used the unpaid taxi fare as a "smokescreen" for a fight. He said: "He (Page) is making judgements in a space of minutes under pressure and under threat. They are decisions not made with the benefit of sobriety, they are decisions made in drink."

DAY SIX: Judge Thomas Crowther sums up the case. The jury retires at 12.55pm.

Jury returns at 15.45pm and find Page guilty of unlawfully killing Paul Rodgers.