Mark Mason murder trial shown more CCTV footage of Rhyl Home Bargains car park attack

A murder trial has today been shown a series of CCTV films collated by detectives investigating the death of dad-of-two Mark Mason.

The footage captured the moment Mr Mason was stabbed in the Home Bargains car park, Rhyl and was played several times to the jury.

It showed a white Renult Kangoo van, in which Mr Mason was a front seat passenger, entering the car park closely followed by a BMW.

The van stopped and the BMW pulled alongside it, the van moved forward slightly but the BMW appeared to block its path.

Paul Lewis, QC, prosecuting, said that it was at that stage that Mr Mason was stabbed while still in the passenger seat.

Figures could be seen running to the van and others could be seen running away.

Within a minute the BMW was shown leaving the car park and by that stage the prosecution say that Mr Mason was slumped in his seat and had suffered 22 stab wounds.

The prosecution say that Mr Mason was killed when a drugs turf war erupted in the resort.

It is alleged that Mr Mason and another had tried to attack two of the so-called rival Pensarn drugs crew earlier in the day as they dealt drugs at The Cob, an area of land near The Marine Lake.

They ran into the water to escape two men with balaclavas and a machete.

The jury has heard claims that to seek retribution, two men came from Liverpool and all four followed the van into the car park where the attack took place last October.

Defendants James Davies, 21, of Moscow Drive, Liverpool; Anthony Baines, 31, of Sutcliffe Street, Liverpool, and Mark Ennis, 31, of Bedford Road, Liverpool, deny the murder of Mark Mason and maliciously wounding Justin Trickett and Sam Illidge with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.

Both Trickett and Illidge ran from the van after being stabbed and refused to make complaints.

A fourth man, Jake Melia, 21, of Eastbourne Road, Liverpool, has admitted all three charges.

The trial, before Mrs Justice Nicola Davies, continues.