Jasreet Klare: Bishop Auckland stabbing 'didn't need to prove fatal'

Jasreet Klare bled to death after having an artery in his arm sliced with a kitchen knife but a tightly applied tourniquet could have stemmed the blood flow, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Pathologist Nigel Cooper said the 40-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds during the fight with his brother, Inderjit Klare, in their family-owned fish and chip shop last October.

Jurors heard how Mr Klare was stabbed in the arm, foot and back, during the fatal altercation, as well as had cuts and bruises to his head, face and torso.

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The doctor said the cause of death was blood loss resulting from the severing of an artery in the right arm.

He said: “If a tourniquet was properly applied tightly, the blood could have been stopped. Usually (the wound) is not fatal, it is very amenable to first aid treatment.”

Jasreet Klare (Image: Durham Constabulary)

Mr Cooper said he was unable to determine exactly how long it would have taken for Mr Klare to bleed to death adding there was ‘no reason for it to have occurred’.

Earlier in the trial, the jury heard how there was a 90-minute delay between the injuries being inflicted and the emergency services being called.

Under cross-examination from defence barrister, David Lamb KC, the pathologist accepted there was no way of knowing what order the injuries were inflicted of what position the brawling brothers were in for each blow.

The pathologist said Mr Klare had been drinking and had taken cocaine in the hours leading up to his death in the early hours of October 9 last year.

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Jurors watched CCTV footage of two eye witnesses kicking their way out of the locked shop, on Trenters Street, Bishop Auckland, as they ‘ran for their lives’ when the night out descended into fatal violence.

Police at the scene of the alleged murder on Tenters Street, Bishop Auckland. (Image: Newsquest)

During police interview the defendant provided a number of short, prepared statements blaming his brother for starting the fight and had to choke him at one point.

The court had heard how the accused admitted cleaning up the site but maintained that his brother was still alive when he called for help.

Inderjit denies murdering his brother and the trial continues.