A TEENAGER has denied murdering a man at his Darwen home and wounding his partner.
Daniel Bamford, 18, appeared via video link at Preston Crown Court and pleaded not guilty to murdering Michael Keen and also denied wounding Ann Marie West.
Both allegations relate to an incident in Hazel Avenue on Thursday, August 25.
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Bamford, of Golborne, near Warrington, did plead guilty to two counts of possessing cocaine with intent to supply and a charge of possessing medical heroin with intent to supply.
Mr Justice William Davis remanded Bamford in custody to face a trial on February 13.
Another man, Paul Swift, 44, of Hinckley Road, St Helens, and a 17-year-old boy, of St Helens, appeared in the dock but charges of assisting an offender were not put to them.
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