Row Over Chair Led to Ealing Pub Killing
Old Bailey trial hears details of how man died outside The Old Hat
The morning after the killing of Mark Barrs. Picture: Bill Wilson
February 27, 2025
A jury at the Old Bailey has been shown CCTV footage of the moments before a man was killed in an Ealing pub last year.
Three men, Leon Woods of Cherry Close in Ealing, Tron McEntee of Jubilee Road in Perivale and Cleveland McEntee of Henchman Street in White City, are accused of the murder of 39-year-old Mark Barrs
Mr Barrs, described in court as a serviceman, died from a stab wound at the Old Hat pub on the evening of Saturday 6 April 2024.
CCTV from inside the pub suggested that a dispute had arisen over a chair between Mr Barrs, his friend David Rogers and Leon Woods at around 6.57pm.
After words were exchanged, 42-year-old Woods placed calls to Cleveland and Tron McEntee who at the time were aged 39 and 34 respectively.
Other footage then shows Woods going to his car and reaching inside before returning to the pub. He was joined at the Old Hat around 20 minutes later by Cleveland and Tron McEntee. An altercation started between Cleveland McAtee and David Rogers and the two groups when out of the fire exit at the rear of the pub to bin storage area off Walsingham Road
A fight ensues and the prosecution alleges that footage shows that Cleveland McEntee had an object in his right hand. At around 7:45pm, Mark Barrs suffered a stomach wound and could be seen staggering.
Tron McEntee left the scene shortly afterwards, but words continued to be exchanged between the David Rogers and Woods and Cleveland McEntee before the latter two drove away.
The emergency services attended but despite the efforts of paramedics, Mr Barrs was pronounced dead at the scene.
The trial continues.
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