A man accused of murdering 15-year-old schoolboy Thomas Devlin replied "no comment" when asked directly by police if he felt guilty about the death, a jury has heard.
The Belfast Crown Court jury heard transcripts of interviews the police had with 26-year-old Nigel James Brown in March 2006, six months after Thomas Devlin was knifed to death in August, 2005.
His friend Jonathan McKee was stabbed and beaten with a baton in the same attack on the Somerton Road in north Belfast.
Both men deny murdering the teenager, attempting to murder Mr McKee and a further charge of attempting to inflict grievous bodily harm on him.
Brown, from Mountcollyer Avenue, north Belfast, has already pleaded guilty to attempting to cause GBH to 22-year-old Mr McKee.
It is the Crown case that Taylor was armed with the knife and that Brown had a baton which they used to attack the group of friends.
On Thursday, the prosecuting lawyer Kate McKay assumed the role of interviewing police while Detective Constable John Kitchen read out Brown's answers.
The jury heard that throughout five of the first interviews, Brown refused to answer any questions, replying "no comment" to each and every enquiry put to him.
During a series of quickfire questions, the police asked Brown: "Did Taylor have the knife? Did you know about the knife? Did the knife come from your house? Are you haunted by that wee lad's face at night?"
However, Brown simply replied "no comment" all of the questions.
Brown also refuses to answer questions about his movements on the night of the killing or the day after, if his fiancee was staying in his flat that night, if he made any phonecalls to Taylor the next day or even about looking after his mother's dog Zola.
Showing Brown photographs of the scene, taken just a few hours after the murder, police said to him: "This was a vicious brutal attack and you were there, do you remember it? That's where a 15-year-old boy ceased to live...do you feel guilty about that?"
Brown continued to refuse to answer the questions, stating: "No comment."
The trial continues.
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