Two men are standing trial after a teenager was shot dead in a Pen Ll?n car park.

Ben Fitzsimons, 23, of Nanhoron, Pwllheli and Ben Wilson, 29, of Ely, Cambridgeshire, both deny the manslaughter through gross negligence of 18-year-old Peter Colwell.

Mr Colwell, who was a gamekeeper at the Boduan estate, died when a semi-automatic shotgun was fired while he sat in the back of a Land Rover Discovery in the car park of the Ship Inn at Llanbedrog on 5 February, 2017.

Mr Colwell, from Capel Uchaf near Clynnog, had been on a night out with workmates and was with three other men waiting for the driver of the car to return to the vehicle for the drive home when the incident happened.

Prosecutor Patrick Harrington told the jury at Caernarfon Crown Court how the semi-automatic shotgun, which belonged to Wilson, was being stored in the footwell of the 4x4, with the muzzle pointing back towards the rear of the vehicle.

Fitzsimons was in the front passenger seat, with Mr Colwell sat in the middle rear seat of the vehicle, while they waited for driver Mr Wilson.

Mr Harrington said: “Within a very short time, the gun was discharged.”

Mr Colwell died instantly from a single gunshot wound to the head.

The jury was told that the killing was not malicious or deliberate, but that the incident was so grossly negligent that it became a criminal offence.

The trial is expected to last another week.