A witness present at a Croydon nightspot where two men were gunned down in front of terrified clubbers told a court he believed he was a target for the killer.

Wayne Douglas told Bristol Crown Court a man called Paul tapped him on the shoulder moments before a gunman shot dead his friend Rufus Edwards at Spotlight nightclub in West Croydon on October 2, 2004.

Moments later the club's head doorman Mark Warlingham was shot dead at point blank range at the front door.

Nine men two from Bristol face charges in connection with the killings as well as a double shooting an hour later which seriously hurt Bristol women Donna Small and Asha Jama.

It is claimed a gang split into two teams to carry out the near simultaneous hits and the Bristol team shot the women instead of their intended victims.

Mr Douglas told the court his friend Rufus Edwards had given a man called Chippie £25,000 to buy a kilogram of cocaine and a dispute arose when he asked for the money back because the cocaine bought was poor quality.

Mr Douglas told the court on the night of the shooting he, Mr Edwards and a man called Mikey went to the Spotlight club in London Road.

Speaking with the aid of a Patois interpreter he told the court: "In the club Paul touched me on my shoulder and asked me whether I had seen Chippie.

"I said I had seen Chippie and he was talking in the corner on his telephone.

"Then the shooting started."

Mr Douglas said that after the shooting he received a call from Chippie who asked him if he had got shot.

He told the court: "When I said no he said I was lucky and he wanted to know what side of the bed I slept on because that was the lucky side and he would have to sleep on that side."

Mr Douglas said he felt he'd been a target because Chippie may have felt he was linked to Mr Edwards and an earlier shooting in Jamaica in which a security guard was shot.

He was adamant that in Spotlight on the night of the killings he saw a man called Wease, who he also knew as Englishman.

The case continues.

l Two Bristol men 24-year-old Winston Minott, of St Werburgh's, and Cleveland Fenderson, 27, of St Paul's face a charge of conspiring with another man, Everoll Bell, to murder Curtis Brookes and/or Andrew Joseph in the city.

l Darren Little, 30, from Mottingham, Marcus Anderson, 28, of Thornton Heath, Craig Hughes, 29, of Peckham, and Daniel Valentine, 20, of Camberwell, face the same charge.

l The other charges relate to incidents in Croydon. Little, Anderson and another man Michael Lindo, 24, of Clapham, are accused of conspiring together with Everoll Bell to murder Curtis Brookes and/or Andrew Joseph in Bristol, and Rufus Edwards in Croydon.

l Lindo, Derrick Mason, 34, of Brixton, and Michael Nettleford, 30, of Croydon, are charged with conspiring with Everoll Bell and unknown others to murder Rufus Edwards.

l Lindo is accused, along with another unknown person, of murdering Mark Warmington.