A man sold drugs from the door of his home as the bodies of two men he had killed lay just feet away, a court heard.

Unemployed John Paul Marshall, 43, sold cannabis at the communal entrance to his Gillygate flat, in York, hours after killing Kevin Mulgrew and Daniel Wall, Leeds Crown Court was told.

Marshall admits bludgeoning the two drug addicts to death in his living room.

He denies murdering the men, who had invited themselves into his home days earlier, on the grounds that he was provoked and lost control.

James Goss, QC, prosecuting, said council workmen were called after a complaint from staff at the downstairs Oven Glove bakery about a "brownish red substance" dripping down their wall.

When the council surveyors tried to force their way into the flat, Marshall appeared at the door "unkempt and grunting".

Mr Goss said: "He was shown the marks on the bakery wall. He shrugged and said he did not know anything about the leaking substance."

Forensic scientists later found that it was blood.

When police returned on December 4 after further complaints about leaking fluids and a terrible stench, they discovered the two bodies.

The court was told they were thought to have been killed on the morning of December 1 after a late night when all three men, with a fourth addict who later left, smoked heroin together.

Marshall fled his home on December 2, driving first to Leeds, where he bought drugs and stayed with a friend, before travelling to Amsterdam.

He was brought back in June after his arrest by Dutch police. The trial continues.