A clubber accused of murdering Jamie Sanderson in Kingston’s Oceana nightclub last year has admitted “watering down” his account of the night to police.

Mr Sanderson, 20, was stabbed once in the heart in the nightclub on October 25 last year.

He died later in an ambulance. The knife has never been found.

Four men - Levan Greenfield, 22, Ashley Milne, 23, both of Peckham, and Brandon Francis, 19, of West Dulwich, and Benjamin Onwuma, 20, of Walworth - all deny murder.

The jury was told on the first day of the trial by prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC all four men were guilty of murder by the law of joint enterprise - the same law which judges a getaway driver and a lookout as equally guilty of a robbery.

Ashley Milne, 23, who was the first of the defendants to take the stand at the Old Bailey yesterday, told Mr Aylett he “watered down” his account of that night last October in a police interview.

He also agreed he had not given a full account to police about fellow defendants Brandon Francis and Levan Greenfield.

Mr Aylett said: “You didn’t say anything to the police, did you, about Brandon Francis, who you knew and had known for years.

“You chose either to water down your account or tell lies.”

Mr Milne said: “That is correct. I think it was a mistake, but I don’t really get in trouble. I panicked.”

Mr Aylett said: “You just haven’t put in what this thing is all actually about.

“You lied about your own involvement, Mr Milne, and you lied about the involvement of others because you had been a party to what went on.

“You knew there was a knife involved; you knew it might be used.”

Mr Milne said: "That is not correct."

Milne, and Levan Greenfield, 22, both of Peckham, Brandon Francis, 19, of West Dulwich, and Benjamin Onwuma, 20, of Walworth, all deny murder.

The trial continues.