Moment Wayne Woodgate walks past man who would kill him 50 minutes later

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Footage played to the jury in a murder trial has revealed the moment a grandfather walked past the man who would later strangle him to death. Bartholomew Hall reports.

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00:00CCTV footage shows the moment a 54-year-old man came within feet of his killer in Tunbridge

00:05Wells town centre less than an hour before his death.

00:09Jurors at Maidstone Crown Court have watched footage of Wayne Woodgate's final moments

00:13before he was killed by Stephen Castle.

00:16The court heard Mr Woodgate was dropped off in Tunbridge Wells by his son to attend an

00:20alcohol and drug support group.

00:22Two hours later, as the grandfather was on his way to leave, 59-year-old Stephen Castle

00:27had also entered the town centre to visit a phone repair shop.

00:31The pair can be seen crossing paths at 3.24pm.

00:36Seconds later, Mr Castle returns to the scene looking for the man he'd later kill.

00:40He told the jury he'd been told he walked past Mr Woodgate by his work colleague Derek

00:45Chantler, who was waiting in a nearby van, which Mr Castle returns to.

00:50The next sighting of Mr Woodgate is five minutes later, when the work colleagues were waiting

00:54in the van at traffic lights and Mr Woodgate was walking nearby.

00:57The court heard Mr Castle left the van to follow on foot.

01:02A witness then reported having seen the pair come face to face in a nearby residential street,

01:07before calling 999, describing a man effing and blinding at another, calling him a junkie

01:12and blaming him for getting nine years.

01:16Later footage shows the van heading out of town with all three men squished inside.

01:20This is the final camera sighting of Mr Woodgate alive before his body was found in East Sussex.

01:26The prosecution told Maidstone Crown Court that Mr Woodgate had been strangled to death

01:30in an act of anger, that Mr Castle had blamed him for a police raid on his home that resulted

01:35in him being sent to prison years earlier.

01:38Mr Castle has admitted to manslaughter but denies a charge of murder.

01:42The trial continues.

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01:45The trial continues.

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