A TREDEGAR man accused of murdering a baby killer “wanted to cut him up and chuck him down a plughole” after being up for days on amphetamine, a jury heard.

Ieuan Harley became “very angry” when he discovered David Gaut, who was known as Dai, had recently been released from a 32-year jail sentence, Newport Crown Court was told.

The 23-year-old found out about the alleged victim’s responsibility for killing a 15-month-old boy named Chi Ming Shek on a website called Black Kalendar, witness Kyle Alford said.

He also told the court how Harley later told him: “Don’t worry about him (Mr Gaut). You won’t be seeing him again.”

Harley is on trial with Darran Evesham and David Osborne, the three accused of murder after Mr Gaut was stabbed more than 150 times in Long Row, Elliots Town, New Tredegar last August.

Mr Alford, a neighbour of Mr Gaut and Osborne, told the jury how he discovered the child killer’s criminal past by research carried out on the internet after coming across a website called Black Kalendar.

He told prosecutor Ben Douglas-Jones QC: “It was a site with all the murders that was committed in the UK.

“It explained about the offence in the 80s and that a 15-year-old baby was killed.”

He said he told his neighbours about it, including Osborne who he would sometimes visit and went there to see him on Thursday, August 2 with his partner Samantha Jenkins.

The court heard how Osborne was Mr Gaut’s next door neighbour and the pair had been friendly.

Mr Alford told the jury Harley was at Osborne’s flat at the time and said he told them: “‘You’ll never guess what we have just found out about what Dai’s allegedly done.’ And I showed them what we found.”

On being asked by Mr Douglas-Jones what sort of state the pair were in, he answered: “Ozzy (Osbourne) was drunk. Ieuan had been up on amphetamine for two or three days.

“Ieuan was fuming – as we all were really. He was very angry, very angry.

“He said it wasn’t even a child – it was a baby. He was sickened.

“Ozzy made a comment that Ieuan wanted to chop him up and put him down the plughole.”

Mr Alford told the court Harley said: “Let’s get him in here to set him up.

“Ozzy, he didn’t want any part of it and said he was going to hide in the kitchen.

“Me and my partner, we didn’t want nothing to do with it. So we left and went back to our own flat.”

Prosecution witness Mr Alford said he saw Harley the next day and was told by him: “‘Don’t worry about him. You won’t be seeing him again.”

Mr Douglas-Jones asked: “Who was that in relation to?”

He answered: “I believed it to be David Gaut. I thought he had beaten him up and he was going to be moved away from the area as he had in his previous two areas.”

Harley, of Punch House Flats, Morgan Street, Tredegar, Darran Evesham, 47, of Powell's Terrace, New Tredegar, and David Osborne, 51, of Long Row, New Tredegar, deny murdering Mr Gaut.

The prosecution say the trio lured the alleged victim to Osborne’s flat where they are accused of killing him before moving him to his own home where his body was discovered by police on Saturday, August 4, 2018.

They also heard how Osborne has pleaded guilty to a separate charge of perverting the course of justice and that Harley and Evesham also deny these charges.

The trial before Mr Justice Lewis is expected to last four weeks.