A MURDER accused told his dad he had “nothing to do with what happened” hours after a pensioner was stabbed in a Glasgow street, a court heard.

Barry Dalgleish, 56, said he asked his son Peter Telfer the day after John Baker was attacked if he knew anything about it.

The High Court in Glasgow heard Mr Dalgleish used a bread knife hours before the alleged murder but it has since “went missing”.

Jurors also heard Telfer told his sister Heather Dalgleish he thought about seeing a psychiatrist because of “negative thoughts about money” and that he thought about “mugging people and more”.

The witnesses were giving evidence on Friday at the trial of Peter Telfer who is accused of murdering 76-year-old Mr Baker on June 29 last year in Calton, in Glasgow’s east end.

Telfer is also accused of assaulting and attempting to rob shop worker Owaisuddin Siddique at the Day-Top on Shettleston Road and carrying a knife on June 24.

He also faces a string of charges including behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at various streets in Glasgow city centre and assaulting and robbing two women of their handbags, on June 28.

The 25-year-old allegedly attempted to defeat the ends of justice as well being charged with possessing cannabis.

The court heard Telfer moved in with Dalgleish at his home at Green Street, Calton, around April last year.

Mr Dalgleish said he didn’t know they were father and son until around three weeks after Telfer was arrested for the alleged murder when a DNA test confirmed it.

The witness said his daughter Heather asked if Telfer could stay with him and he treated him as “a sort of lodger”.

He told the court Telfer was out of the house on June 28 and returned home around 12.30am on June 29.

Mr Dalgleish told the court he became aware of a blue flashing light and got up to look out the window and saw a police car across the road and officers who seemed like they were looking for something.

Mr McSporran asked: “Did you ask Peter if he knew anything?”.

The witness replied: “I did, I spoke to him about it in the afternoon and I remembered that he had come in quite late the night before and asked him if he knew anything about it and he said basically no he didn’t.”

He told the jury: “As I recall after I asked the question he said to me that he didn’t have anything to do with what happened and I thought to myself at the time, I just asked him if he knew something about it.

“I couldn’t understand why he was saying he didn’t have anything to do with it.”

Telfer denies the charges and the trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.