A MURDER suspect yesterday denied being at a house where a man was killed during a visit to a prostitute.

Kalvant Singh died after he was thrown from an upstairs window of a house in Errol Street, Middlesbrough, by Jonathan Crossling - known as Bam Bam - in the early hours of August 6 last year, Newcastle Crown Court has heard.

Mr Crossling's brother, Jason, 32, told the court yesterday that he had been out for a drink, went to bed, then got up for work the following morning.

He said he was not involved in the attack on Mr Singh, or a second assault on Michael Moody, who allegedly had his head pushed through a glass fish tank.

Mr Crossling said he was not even at the house.

Thomas Petch, 22, has admitted being at the house and told the court he had tried to get Jonathan Crossling away from Mr Singh.

Jason Crossling told the court yesterday: "I do not associate with my brother, or Petch. They are into prostitution and crack cocaine.

"I am not involved in that sort of thing."

The prosecution says that Mr Petch, 22, and the Crossling brothers were driven, together with Lee Harrison, by George Coleman, 41, to Errol Street, to seek out someone they believed had been robbing prostitutes.

Jonathan Crossling and Mr Harrison are still on the run from police.

Mr Petch, of Parkhouse Farm, Dunsdale, Jason Crossling, of Fairfield Road, Middlesbrough, and Mr Coleman, of Thornton Street, North Ormesby, face charges of murder and serious violence.

They deny all the charges.

The trial continues.