The jury in the murder trial of Hartcliffe man Alan Riddock has found Diane Churchley unanimously guilty of intending to cause grievous bodily harm to his friend, Jonathan Stephens, after 18-and-a-half hours' deliberation.

Bristol Crown Court has heard 41-year-old Mr Riddock had been standing outside the front of The Park House pub, in St John's Lane, when he dropped his trousers and exposed his backside in view of Mrs Churchley who was stood outside her home opposite.

It is claimed enraged Mrs Churchley ordered her sons John and Liam and their cousins Jason and Craig Hartrey to get here and help her, prompting the fatal encounter involving baseball bats and a samurai sword.

Denying murder on May 24 last year are: Diane Churchley, aged 50, of St John's Lane, Bedminster; Liam Churchley, 20, of St John's Lane, Bedminster; Jason Hartrey, 39, of Dawlish Road, Bedminster; John Churchley, 23, of Queens Road, Withywood; Craig Hartrey, aged 36, of St John's Lane, Bedminster.

All of the accused also deny intending to cause grievous bodily harm to Mr Riddock's friend, Jonathan Stephens.

Diane Churchley is also charged with assisting an offender by washing Liam Churchley's clothes and shoes and washing and hiding his baseball bat.

The jury has now been offered majority verdicts, on at which at least 10 of them agree.

Jurors were sent home on Wednesday afternoon and were told to resume their deliberations on the remaining charges on Thursday morning.  

The case continues.