JURY members at the Jimmy Mizen murder trial have been told to "fight against their emotions" when considering their verdict.

Summing up the defence's case in the trial of 19-year-old Jake Fahri, lawyer Sally O'Neill told jurors they must "leave sympathy and prejudice aside" when considering the evidence.

Jimmy was killed when a glass dish was thrown at him, cutting his throat, following a row at the Three Cooks Bakery in Lee on May 10 last year.

But Ms O'Neill told jurors to "fight against their emotions because it blinds you".

She also claimed the fight in the bakery got so out of hand it could have been defendant Jake Fahri who ended up seriously injured or dead.

Ms O'Neill said: "Mr Fahri displayed no more intention to cause Jimmy serious harm than Jimmy did to cause Mr Fahri serious harm.

"It could have ended up the other way round.

"When you look at the shards of glass sticking up from the broken glass cabinet - the same cabinet which Jimmy and Harry were punching him up against - it could have been that Jake Fahri ended up dead."

She added: "It was only because the dish smashed with such disastrous consequences that we are here today."

Fahri, aged 19, of Milborough Crescent, Lee, denies murder and says he was acting in self-defence.

The Old Bailey trial continues.