A 14-year-old boy shot a man dead on the youngster’s doorstep, his teenage rival told police.

Wesley Metcalfe, 15, said Thomas Moseley aimed a shotgun at Lee Holt, 32, “like he had held it before” and then fired.

Thomas’s father, Matthew Moseley, 50, is on trial accused of the murder of Mr Holt as the prosecution alleged he discharged the 12-gauge semi-automatic Beretta shotgun.

The Crown say Moseley senior then handed the firearm to Thomas and told him to take the blame for the shooting before the police arrived.

The jury watched a video of Wesley’s police interview in which he gave his account of what happened outside the Moseley family home in Oswaldtwistle on the evening of October 25 last year.

The youngster went to the address with his mother, Kate Phelan, and Mr Holt to attempt to settle an ongoing dispute between the schoolboys, Preston Crown Court heard.

He said he earlier showed a string of online messages to his mother in which he said Thomas challenged him to a fight and threatened to come to his house.

Both his mother and Mr Holt were annoyed, he said, and wanted to sort things out “adult to adult”.

Wesley said his mother knocked on the Moseley front door in Barnard Close, Oswaldtwistle, and became angry when there was no answer and she saw Thomas in the living room on the phone.

Then Mr Holt booted the front door, said the teenager, before it swung open “very fast”.

He told police: “Tom was stood at the front and his dad and mum were behind. No-one said anything.

“I saw that Tom had a gun. I’m pretty sure it was a single-barrelled shotgun.

“He was holding it like confident. Like he had it held before.”

The police officer asks: “How long is it before he shoots?”

Wesley replied: “When I look back I realise it’s just two seconds but at the time it felt like a good 30 seconds because obviously everything slows down. It’s like tunnel vision.”

He explained he stood to the left of Mr Holt at the front doorstep.

He went on: “Lee was basically screaming the words ‘aaarghh’, holding his chest and he fell to the floor straightaway, and then Tom started pointing the gun at everybody ... in a real calm way like nothing had happened, so casual.”

He said he ran for shelter behind a parked car before he helped pick up Mr Holt and move him from the driveway.

Mr Holt later died in hospital from the single gunshot wound to the chest.

Last week, Thomas Moseley told the court that his father had shot Mr Holt and denied the gun went off while he was holding it after his father tried to pull the weapon away.

Opening the case at the start of last week, prosecutor Robert O’Sullivan QC said another teenage witness to the incident also said Matthew Moseley was the shooter and that Wesley had wrongly identified Thomas “perhaps as a result of shock and confusion”.

He said all the witnesses involved at the scene agreed that after the shooting Thomas Moseley had been in possession of the gun while standing in the driveway.

The trial continues.