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A friend of a Dunedin man stabbed more than 40 times has described finding his unresponsive body soaked in blood.
Gurjit Singh, 27, was found stabbed to death in what appeared to be an attempted decapitation on the lawn of his Dunedin home in January last year.
The 35-year-old man accused of the murder, who is listed in court documents only as Rajinder, is on trial at the High Court at Dunedin.
The defence has insisted Rajinder had no reason to kill his former employee and there was no animosity between the two men, but the Crown said Rajinder's DNA was found throughout the murder scene.
Singh's friend Dhruval Aery told the court that he went to Singh's home after receiving multiple panicked messages from a mutual friend.
They were on the phone while he arrived, finding his friend on the ground outside, unresponsive and bleeding from multiple injuries, he said.
"I think he is dead."
He was questioned why he thought that, saying: "Oh
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