A man accused of murdering his drug dealer friend told police he did not want “this f****** blood on my hands anymore”, a court heard.

Michael Jordan, 25, from Ashtead, is accused killing former public schoolboy Matthew Demko with a barbell in April over a £3,000 drugs debt.

Prosecutor Michael Austin-Smith QC read out in court along with DC Jacqueline Smith transcripts of Mr Jordan ’s interviews with police in the days following Demko’s death.

During the interview Mr Jordan gave an account of the sequence of events leading to Demko's death.

He also confirmed he had told PC Tisdale at the scene, while soaked in Demko's blood: "I don't want this f****** blood on my hands anymore."

He said Demko had gone to his place, sat outside the garage to smoke a joint and they were just chatting.

Demko told the officer that he was going out at Stir Club, in Epsom, because a friend was playing that night.

He then went into the house to get a CD and came back to find Demko on the floor in the garage. “I thought he was joking. I said ‘get up you dick’,” Mr Jordan said.

It was only when he saw blood, he told police, that he noticed something was wrong.

“He was curled up in a corner and had this thing around his neck,” he said.

Mr Jordan said he tried to put Demko into recovery position and gave him chest compressions.

He said: “It was like his head was completely smashed in, smashed open.”

Mr Jordan denies murder.

The trial continues.