A man accused of brutally murdering a 51-year-old in an Enfield street had "intent" to kill, it has been claimed.

Malachi Lindo, 26, of Bowles Green, in Enfield, was charged with the murder of Phillip Steels, who died after suffering severe head injuries in Green Street in the early hours of Thursday, September 4 last year.

Mr Lindo admitted to killing Mr Steels but denies the murder charge on grounds of diminished responsibility.

In the afternoon at the Old Bailey, prosecutor Anthony Orchard and defence barrister Ian Glen made their closing speeches to the jury.

After both sides agreed the defendant was suffering "from an abnormality of mental state of mind", Mr Orchard told the jury that Mr Lindo did have an intent to hurt Mr Steels, even if it was under the influence of drugs.

He said: "Look at the images, the force, the severity of the attack on Mr Steels. We suggest an intent formed under the influence is still intent.

"If you decide that his consumption of drugs had caused the death of Philip Steels, then you need to decide whether he would not have killed even if he was not under the influence of drugs,

"He should not be allowed to rely on his drug intoxication as a defence in this case. He cannot hide behind his voluntary taking of drugs for the actions he carried out.

"'I am not going to kill anyone else', he repeated. 'I promise I won’t kill again'. So there is an awareness there that he knows what he has done. We say it’s obvious, he must have known what he’s doing. He is guilty of murder."

Mr Lindo was found with cannabis and ethodrone, known as MDEA, in his body, something that is alleged to have caused Mr Lindo to become psychotic.

Mr Glen refuted claims made by Mr Orchard and said there are two defences: that Mr Lindo has a mental issue and that there is a case of diminished responsibility.

He said: "The defendant has accepted that he must have caused these injuries, that he must have gone further than any self-defensive motives.

"This is a case of murder, not causing injuries. It has to prove intention of serious bodily harm.

"We heard from Mr Cummings that he does not find Mr Lindo to be making all of this (hallucinations) up, he is talking about particular kinds of moments and he said there is no such thing as self-induced psychosis.

"Psychosis is being in a different world altogether, a psychotic stage is true madness when this happened.

"It was very obvious he was suffering from mental health problems, you can see his twirling in the ground beforehand, and his valuable property is down the road, it does not take Sherlock Homes to say he has mental health problems."

The jury will be sent out tomorrow by Lord Justice Worseley.