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- • Prosecutors say Donald Ralph, 83, was murdered in his own home in Aldham on December 28 last year.
- • Leighton Snook, 28, and a teenager, who can't be named for legal reasons, are accused of murdering the pensioner, before stealing two guns from his home and making off in Mr Ralph's Volvo.
- • Both Snook and the teenager deny murder.
- Snook denies burglary, while the same charge has been admitted by the teenager, who is from Leicester.
- • Both defendants deny the theft of the Volvo.
- •Prosecutors say Snook, of no fixed address, was desperate for quick cash to clear a drug debt and that, the prosecution say, is 'the motive for murder'.
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