Three men deny murdering Glasgow schoolboy Kriss Donald

Andrew Ingram, 23, said he mentioned the Clyde path to Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq on the day Kriss disappeared.

The jury previously heard how the 15-year old's body was found on the Clyde walkway on 16 March 2004.

Mr Mushtaq, 27, Imran Shahid, 29, and his brother Zeeshan Shahid, 28, deny racially aggravated murder.

Mr Ingram told the High Court in Edinburgh of his conversation with Mr Mushtaq - known as Beck.

He said: "He asked me if he could come to my house.

"He just said he had somebody with him, can he bring him to my house to sort it out."

Mr Ingram told Beck he could not come to his house.

He added: "I said to him to take him down the Clyde path."

'Police pressure'

Mr Ingram told advocate depute Mark Stewart QC that he had "no doubt whatsoever" that it was Beck who had phoned him.

He told the court that he had not mentioned this phone call to the police the first time they had spoken to him about the case.

It was only during his second interview that he mentioned it.

Another witness, Scott Percy, 28, had told the court on Friday that Beck had phoned him asking for access to a house on the day of the schoolboy's alleged abduction.

Under cross-examination on Monday by Donald Findlay QC, counsel for Mushtaq, he claimed he had been put under pressure by the police when interviewed.

Mr Percy said: "They were making threats to me.

"They were saying they would get me locked up for other things if I didn't go along with their statement."

Mr Percy said it may not have been Beck who had phoned him.

The witness later told Mr Stewart: "I had received a phone call from Beck to ask me if I still had access to a friend's house, that was the truth."