A Bristol teenager accused of murder looked at her alleged victim as he lay dying on the ground and said "Let him die", a court heard.

Witnesses told Bristol Crown Court a mixed race girl fitting April Bright's description pointed at Mohamoud Hassan and said the words as he lay stricken outside the Criterion pub having been fatally stabbed in the neck.

The jury was also told a witness saw bright with blood on her hands and Bright said something about "catching Aids".

Bright, then 17, of Wilder Street, St Paul's, admits manslaughter but denies murder.

It is alleged she stabbed Mr Hassan after last year's St Pauls Carnival, because he was in a group of Somali men making "a lecherous nuisance of themselves".

Beate Henry told the court she was using a cubicle in the ladies' lavatory at the Criterion when a girl kicked her way in, demanded toilet paper and she threw her a roll.

She told the court: "I came outside the cubicle and I saw the young girl with blood on her finger. I heard her say something about catching Aids and I said 'I think you'd better get some antiseptic on that or something'.

"She gave me a mad look and said she was getting it sorted and she was dealing with it."

The witness said it was then she noticed that the girl was holding a hexagon shaped item, which at first she thought was a tape measure but then realised it had a inch long blade sticking out of it.

She said: "It was a yellow or orange luminous kind of colour and it was a hexagon shape... It was definitely not a kitchen knife.

"From her manner and the way she was behaving to me she was up to no good."

Abdirahman Yusuf told the court he was a close friend of the deceased, originating from the same Somalian tribe.

He described noticing a crowd outside the Criterion, investigating and seeing his friend Hassan, who he knew at Tiger, lying on the ground with a neck injury.

He said: "People were trying to help his as best they could. When I was crying and watching people trying to help him I saw a mixed race girl come out of the Criterion.

"She was circling Mr Hassan while he was lying and she was looking in an angry way.

"She pointed a finger and said: 'F**king let him die'."

The case in Bristol continues.