TRIAL UPDATE: Police and paramedics give evidence

The man accused of killing Daniel Quelch in a frenzied knife attack calmly chatted to police at the scene, and even asked an officer to fetch him a can of coke, a court heard this morning.

Paranoid schizophrenic Benjamin Frankum, 26, is accused of stabbing the landscape gardener to death in a 'totally motiveless crime' when the victim was staying at his parents' Littlewick Green home.

During today's hearing at Reading Crown Court, prosecutor Nigel Daly read statements from police and paramedics who attended the scene in Cherry Garden Lane on August 23 last year.

The court heard how paramedics arrived shortly after 7am to find a man wandering around in his boxer shorts, covered in blood, with a boxer dog.

The body of Mr Quelch was found inside the home.

In a statement, PC Harrison said the blood-stained man found at the address seemed extremely relaxed.

PC Harrison stated: "He was chatting away and he seemed quite happy. I heard him chat to PC Bedford, saying, 'can you get me a can of coke? There is some in the fridge'."

The trial continues.