Jury shown footage of alleged murderer threatening to jump from roof after fatal attack on Wolverhampton pensioner
Jurors were shown the moment a masked burglar who had allegedly murdered a Wolverhampton pensioner in sheltered accommodation threatened to jump off a roof soon after.
Paul Topham is standing trial for the murder of 94-year-old Harold Monk at Inglewood Court, Bradmore, in the early hours of October 3 last year.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard Topham, aged 45 and of Sparkbrook, Birmingham, stole Mr Monk's key fob during a visit to his mother's flat in the complex a few days earlier.
The court was told by prosecutor Robert Price that masked Topham woke his victim up whilst pilfering his belongings and then unleashed a vicious attack on the frail pensioner.
He is accused of holding Mr Monk down and raining down punches, leaving him with fractured ribs and a bleed on the brain. Mr Monk, known as Harry, died the next day in hospital.
