Craig McSporran, 31, was killed after a drinking session with pal Derek MacNeil, 32, after celebrating Andy Murray’s historic Wimbledon victory in the Heritage Bar in Linwood.

This week the High Court in Paisley heard the pair, both from Linwood, were walking along Bridge Street when accused Christopher O’Shea, 25, is alleged to have knifed both men near the Fulwood Avenue junction.

O’Shea, who lived just metres from the scene of the attack with girlfriend Margaret Rooney, 31, denies murdering Craig and attempting to murder Mr MacNeil in the early hours of Monday, July 8.

Prosecutor advocate Paul Kearney told the court how Mr MacNeil had been in the pub since 4.30pm and was joined by Craig just shortly before closing time.

Lord Stewart heard how Sergeant Jacquie Melvin, of Paisley police office, arrived around eight minutes after the emergency call and was the first officer on the scene.

She told how she rushed to help Craig after spotting him lying injured on the ground.

Sergeant Melvin, who has been in the police service for 18 years, told the jury: “I saw Craig lying on his back.

“From the injuries I saw, he had been stabbed in the stomach.

“I could see his body organs exposed, it appeared very serious.” Before police and ambulance arrived, passer-by John Winters, 48, had dialled 999 after he saw the injured Mr MacNeil and then found Craig dying in the street at around 12.50am.

He said: “My partner had picked me up from a gathering and we were driving home through Linwood.

“We were in the car when I heard a lady screaming and saw a man lying on the ground.

“We stopped the car and a blonde-haired lady was crying out for an ambulance.

“That’s when I seen a fellow on the ground bleeding.

“I looked up on the street and saw a leg sticking out of the grass.

“There was quite a lot of blood. The man was struggling, he was gasping for air.” Mr Winters told how he helped Craig by cutting open his T-shirt and applying pressure to his stab wounds.

He later helped paramedics treat him by carrying him onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.

Dad-of-two Mr MacNeil, who was stabbed in the back of the head, received blows to his head and was beaten during the incident, claimed he saw O’Shea appear from his Fulwood Avenue home before attacking the pair.

Giving evidence, he said: “Craig was walking ahead of me when I heard a glass smash.

“We had been sharing a pint we’d taken from the pub on the way to my mum’s house so I assumed the smash came from the pint tumbler.

“He (O’Shea) came out the house with a big bread knife. It was silver and about six or eight inches big.

“He started running down the path towards us, I got a fright and ran down the road and thought Craig had went the other way.

“I looked back and saw him standing over Craig.

“I ran back to make sure Craig was okay but I fell on my face and hands, that’s when I felt him striking me on the back of the head with the blade and back of the blade about six or seven times.

“After that I was stabbed on my left leg on the upper thigh.” Mr MacNeil, a warehouse operator, said he has been left traumatised by the ordeal.

He added: “It has pretty much ruined my life.

“Nothing is the same anymore. I am on anti-depressants and have to take painkillers constantly.

“I think about Craig constantly and have nightmares about what happened to him and I have panic attacks.

“I can’t even go to the local sports centre with my daughters because crowds make me anxious.” O’Shea’s brothers Daniel, 22 and Lee, 24 also stand trial accused of providing a false alibi and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Christopher O’Shea denies murdering Craig McSporran, attemping to murder Derek McNeil and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The trial continues.