A FORENSIC pathologist told a race murder trial that a man who was allegedly kicked and stamped to death suffered injuries normally associated with a car crash.

Dr Julie McAdam said she had never come across the type of severe trauma that killed William McKeeney, 57, from massive internal bleeding.

Several injuries, from blows to the head left the sole pattern of footwear, Dr McAdam said.

She was giving evidence in the trial of Asif Rehman, 20, and Adel Ishaq, 19, who are accused of the racially aggravated killing of Mr McKeeney outside his home in Pollokshields, Glasgow, in January this year.

Dr McAdam, who led the post-mortem examination, said considerable force must have caused an artery to burst after being pressed against the victim's spine.

She said Mr McKeeney's injury was most often seen in car crashes or falls from considerable height, adding: "I haven't seen this kind of assault before."

She told the High Court at Kilmarnock that Mr McKeeney "might have been lying down from early on".

The victim's partner, Anne Marie Newlands, 48, earlier described watching from her window as two men stamped and kicked him on the ground "as if breaking up furniture".

Neighbour Sajid Iqbal, 22, said Rehman and Ishaq had confessed to the attack.

Rehman and Ishaq, both prisoners, deny the racially aggravated murder of Mr McKeeney and showing previous malice and ill-will towards him.

They have entered special defences of incrimination, blaming each other for the killing. Rehman is said to have been on bail at the time.

The trial continues.