This is the last known image of Lee McKnight, captured on CCTV just hours before his death.
This image, taken from a camera at the forecourt of the filling station at Tesco, Warwick Road, was shown to a jury in the trial of six people who stand accused of his murder.
It was logged at 7pm on July 23 last year.
In a statement read to the jury at Carlisle Crown Court earlier this week, Mr McKnight’s mother, Wendy, recalled hearing her son running upstairs at the family’s city home on that evening and going straight back out of the house.
There were then Snapchat exchanges between 26-year-old Mr McKnight and one of the defendants, Coral Edgar, between 1.49am and 2.18am the following morning.
At 2.19am he called a taxi which dropped him in the Fusehill Street area 17 minutes later.
The prosecution allege he then “walked straight into a trap” at an address in nearby Charles Street, where he is said to have been “beaten to the point of death” before being transported across Carlisle and placed in the River Caldew close to Blackwell Hall.
A farmer called 999 at 5.23am after finding his body in the water near a pipe bridge.
The formal cause of death was head, neck and chest injuries, followed by drowning. A pathologist concluded that he was still alive when he was put in the water.
Four men and two women deny Mr McKnight’s murder, and the trial is due to resume at the crown court on Monday morning.
