A MAN who was allegedly murdered in his Dunfermline home “bled to death” after he suffered an injury to his thigh, a court has heard.

Professor Charles McCollum told jurors at the High Court in Edinburgh that Christopher Cowie would have died shortly after the wound had been inflicted.

At the murder trial the Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Manchester University said that an artery and a vein had been compromised by the injury.

He added: “The deceased bled to death.”

The medical expert was giving evidence on the third day of proceedings against Jason Mooney, 27, and Lynn Kelly, 35, who are both from Dunfermline.

They deny murdering Mr Cowie at his home in Golfdrum Street on October 15, 2019 and other charges, including drug dealing and shoplifting.

Professor McCollum said Mr Cowie had sustained an injury to his thigh which was four centimetres long and six centimetres deep.

Glass was recovered from the wound.

Prosecutors claim that between October 13 and October 15 2019, at various locations in Dunfermline, the two accused were concerned in supplying cocaine and heroin.

The second charge alleges that on October 14 2019, Ms Kelly stole a bottle of wine from a branch of the Co-Op in Dunfermline.

The third charges alleges that on October 15 2019, Mr Mooney assaulted Mr Cowie at his flat in Golfdrum Road, by presenting a knife at him and threatening him with it.

Prosecutors claim in the fourth charge that both Mr Mooney and Ms Kelly assaulted Mr Cowie by striking him on the head with a mirror and hitting him with a lamp.

It is also alleged that that they struggled with him before repeatedly punching and kicking him on the head and body.

Prosecutors claim the accused struck him on the leg with a piece of broken mirror “or similar object” before “failing to summon emergency medical assistance” for Mr Cowie.

It is alleged that as a result of their actions, both Mr Mooney and Ms Kelly “did murder” Mr Cowie.

The fifth charge alleges that on October 15 2019, the accused stole an X Box games console, a laptop, a Kindle tablet, a hoover, watches, a holdall, foreign currency, bank cards and gift cards from Mr Cowie’s property.

Prosecutors also claim that on October 18 2019, at room six of the James Bank Hostel in Dunfermline, Mr Mooney breached the Firearms Act by possessing a “prohibited weapon”.

It’s claimed that this item was an “irritant spray canister designed or adapted for the discharge of a noxious liquid” or gas.

The seventh charge claims that Mr Mooney had this item without having a firearms certificate and that this caused him to also breach the Firearms Act.

The two accused have entered not guilty pleas to all charges.

The trial, before judge Lord Beckett, continues.