A teenager accused of murdering two homeless men in St David’s may have acted with others, a jury heard as his Supreme Court trial opened this morning.

According to prosecutor Rory Field, Darronte Dill, 19, was involved in stabbing Maxwell Brangman and Frederick Gilbert multiple times as they slept in a hut near the Black Horse Tavern.

The body of 57-year-old Mr. Brangman was subsequently set on fire. Mr. Gilbert, 53, managed to escape into the nearby water before dying of injuries sustained in the attack in the early hours of September 21 2008.

The victims were, according to Mr. Field, “two harmless men asleep” while Dill was “a young man who seems to have gone out looking for trouble on that night”.

He also told the jury there may have been one or more other persons involved in the killings, but Dill played an active role.

The defendant, of Fenton’s Drive, Pembroke, denies two charges of murder.

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