Murder accused describes life or death struggle with knife A DRUG runner lashed out with a knife in self defence in a life or death struggle with a man who would later die of stab wounds, a court heard. Reece McHutcherson, 20, said he feared he was going to die during a confrontation with Murdoch Brown in Greenstead, Colchester, in May 2019. Taking to the witness box during the fourth week of a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, McHutcherson described how he had agreed to take up a job for a drug dealing line. He said he arrived at a property in Woodrow Way, Colchester, with Jay Dice.