The father of up and coming snooker star – 16-year

The father of up and coming snooker star – 16-year-old Ronnie
O’Sullivan – sat grim-faced in the dock at the Old Bailey charged
with murder listening to the former girlfriend of Charlie Kray
give evidence.

The court had heard that O’Sullivan, 38, who is also called
Ronald, stabbed one man to death and seriously wounded another at
an exclusive Chelsea nightclub.

The day the trial began, his son thrashed Jimmy ‘Whirlwind’
White 5-1 in the European Open in Blackpool.

Angela Mills, dressed in a white suit with her blonde hair pulled back
in a pony tail, told the jury how she became hysterical as she stood
over the body of Bruce Bryan, 31, after he stumbled, bleeding, into
the street from the club.

O’Sullivan, 38, of Manor Road, Chigwell, denies murdering Bryan,
wounding with intent, affray and causing actual bodily harm on October
12 last year.

His co-defendant Edward O’Brien, 32, of Havelock Street, Islington,
denies murder, wounding with intent and affray on the same date.

The jury were told that Miss Mills had an eight or nine month
romance with the victim, Bruce Bryan, who lived in Barrow Road,
Streatham, and that at the end of the affair they had remained close
friends for ten years.

She admitted under cross-examination that Bruce often drove her
and Charlie Kray, the brother of the notorious Kray twins, around
when they went night-clubbing at week-ends.

On the night of the attack she was celebrating her birthday with
friends when Bryan and his brother Kelvin, 26, turned up unexpectedly
at Stocks nightclub in the Kings Road, Chelsea.

She said O’Sullivan and O’Brien became abusive and began making
racist remarks to the two brothers.

She said that one of the men
became so angry that she and her friends fled the club in terror.

‘The man with the fairer hair was screaming and just went mad.

He was just standing there screaming.

The girls all got together
and we grabbed all of our things and just ran out.

I left my coat
behind,’ she said.

As she fled the club the sound of smashing glass made her turn
back to see what was happening.

‘I looked in the direction that I thought it was coming from and
I saw Bruce standing there.

The dark haired man was approaching him.

I was very worried,’ she said.

She told the court that the next thing she remembered happening
was Bruce leaving the club.

Miss Mills said: ‘He was cut and bleeding.

He was slumped over –
holding himself.

He said ”Help me” and he fell down into the road.

I ran over to him and the darker haired men came out of the club next.

He ran over to Bruce and kicked him.

It was very hard, either in the
chest or above.

Then he walked around the side of the club, which is the
car park.

‘
Mr John Bevan prosecuting had told the jury when opening the case
that O’Sullivan would be sometimes be referred to as ‘the darker haired
man’ by witnesses.

The trial continues.

ENDS
MEMO: The reference to O’Sullivan being the father of the snooker
champion was not said in court.

We have decided to put it in because
it is not prejudicial to the trial.

We intended to use the reference
only at the end of the case.

Please use, or delete, at your discretion.

The Kray references were part of the court proceedings.

ends memo