The twin brother of a Norwich man stabbed to death by a London drug dealer told a court how he was 'not happy' their flat was being used as a base from which to sell drugs.

Steve Stannard, 37, was found with multiple stab wounds to his back and front at his flat in Bowers Avenue, Mile Cross.

Trixy his pet Border collie also suffered stab wounds, but survived the attack, Norwich Crown Court heard.

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Hassiem Baqir, 19, from Howberry Road, Thornton Heath, London, has denied murder, but has admitted to supplying heroin and crack cocaine.

Giving evidence via a video link, Steve's twin brother Eddie told the court how they both were users of Class A drugs and had agreed to let the London-based Pat and Mick group use their flat as a base to deal drugs around the end of the October to the start of November, last year.

He said the group had been operating from another address in King Street in Norwich, but had then asked his brother if they could use their Bowers Avenue address.

He said: 'I was not happy with it but I went along.'

He said both he and his brother were using crack cocaine and heroin at the time and said they were offered drugs in return for the use of the flat.

Andrew Shaw, prosecuting, asked if it was easy to say 'no' to the request by the group from London to which he replied: 'It ain't easy to say no.'

He said that when you had a crack cocaine and heroin habit you were 'vulnerable. They know how to play you.'

He said he and his brother knew a network of users and would act as runners delivering the drugs for the Pat and Mick group, while one of the group members, a man with a knife, stayed at the flat.

He said the knife was about one foot long with a white handle on it.

'It was a big knife,' he said.

He estimated the drugs sales were bringing in about £1,000 a day.

Earlier the court heard that Baqir gave a no comment interview to police on his arrest.

The trial continues.