A WOMAN has told a jury how a car containing a dead body was abandoned outside her home on the day of a failed raid on Wolverley Post Office.

Lindsay Round was in the front bedroom in Forge Lane, Wall Heath, on June 20 last year when her attention was attracted by a blue Ford Sierra 4x4 driven at a fast speed into the cul-de-sac.

Two men got out and one of them shouted into car: "Scott, wake up", Worcester Crown Court was told.

One of the men ran off and returned a short time later in a black BMW. It was driven off with both of them inside.

Both men were wearing black bomber jackets and one had a glove on one hand. As she left home and cycled past the car, she saw a body on the back seat and blood on the upholstery.

Two policemen and an ambulance arrived and attempts were made to resuscitate the man.

The court has heard that the dead man was 28-year-old Scott Griffiths, of Blaze Park, Wall Heath, who was fatally stabbed as he tried to rob Wolverley postmaster Richard Watkins.

The prosecution alleges he was a member of a gang which targeted vulnerable business premises in the West Midlands last summer.

Accused are Wayne Davies, 26, of Himley Road, Dudley, Neal Frost, 33, of George Street, Wordsley, Michelle Sykes, 21, of Sudderley Gardens, Milking Bank, Gornal, and Patrick Crane, 38, of no fixed address.

They deny conspiracy to rob. Davies and Frost have also denied having a sawn-off shotgun when committing an offence.

The jury has heard masked raiders attacked Huttons off licence in Clifton Street, Stourbridge, and the home of Marlene Turner, in Holcroft Road, Kingswinford, from which she and her husband ran a private car hire business.

Richard Latham QC, prosecuting, said Davies's girlfriend, Paula Hopwood, was convicted by Kidderminster magistrates last October of using Mrs Turner's chequebook to buy goods and of receiving lottery cards stolen from the newsagents.

The trial continues.