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trial heard.Robbie Smullen in accused of murdering 22-year-old Barry Dixon who died in hospital after being discovered injured in a Perth flat.Giving evidence at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Smullen said Barry had come at him with a blade and he grabbed his arm.The 23-year-old said he “fell on top of him” and only realised Barry had been wounded when standing back up.Smullen told the jury he was “terrified” and “panicked”, fleeing the flat he shared with partner Shannon Beattie without calling for an ambulance.He told how he’d found Shannon alone in his flat with Barry, who was only wearing boxer shorts, and thought the pair were “having sex”.Smullen said Shannon, 25, had went into the bathroom after he’d arrived home and didn’t

fatal stabbing, a trial heard.Mary Smullen, 46, is accused of trying to cover-up the alleged involvement of Robbie Smullen, 23, in murdering Barry Dixon.The court had heard how she rushed round to a Perth flat to find Barry, 22, lying badly injured on a mattress.The flat was occupied by her son’s “on/off” partner, Shannon Beattie, 25, who previously told the trial she’d witnessed Robbie Smullen stab Barry in the chest.The High Court in Edinburgh was earlier played a transcript of Mary Smullen making a 999 call from the flat at 2.35am on June 4 2019.Asked where Shannon was, Smullen told the operator: “I think it was her who done it.”On Monday PC Robert Rodger, 48, gave evidence that he took a statement from Smullen in her home at around

Perth man to death was heard saying, “I’m glad I killed him, he’s a d**k”, a court heard.Robbie Smullen is accused of murdering 22-year-old Barry Dixon who died in hospital after receiving a stab wound to the heart.His mother, Mary Smullen, is in the dock alongside him accused of trying to cover up his alleged involvement.Both deny the charges against them and Robbie Smullen has lodged a special defence of self-defence at his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.On Friday the court heard from Brian Henderson who said he’d been at his partner’s home a few doors away from Mary’s Smullen’s address in Perth on June 3, 2019.The 48-year-old said Robbie Smullen came to the door that night and his partner answered it.Brian said Smullen seemed

stab a young man after accusing him of having sex with her, a trial heard.Shannon Beattie, 25, described how victim Barry Dixon told Robbie Smullen, “I’ve not been with your bird”, as he stood in the couple’s flat in just his boxer shorts.The two men started punching each other, she said, and “Robbie stabbed him in the chest”.The court heard Barry “laughed to begin with, I think because he didn’t know he’d been stabbed” then “he just froze” and fell onto a mattress.Shannon said she’d went with Barry back to her Perth flat where they’d kissed, but “nothing sexual” had happened she could recall.She said Barry was in his boxer shorts to be “comfy” when Smullen arrived back at the home.Earlier that day Shannon said she’d argued with her

murder trial heard.Barry Dixon later suffered a cardiac arrest in hospital while surgeons battled to repair the damage and he died.Robbie Smullen denied murdering the 22-year-old at the first day of his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday.His mother, Mary Smullen, is in the dock alongside him accused of trying to cover up his alleged involvement in the killing.Both deny the charges against them and Robbie Smullen, 23, has lodged a special defence of self-defence.Barry was found badly injured at a home in Wallace Court in the Tulloch area of Perth on June 4 2019.A joint minute was read to the jury which told how police and paramedics arrived in the early hours of that morning following a 999 call.The court heard Barry was