It was only a week before Christmas when Paul Stenson went to a house party with his friends.
The dad-of-two's family could not have imagined that he would never come home after he was knifed in the heart by a stranger and died aged 30.
A trial at Liverpool Crown Court earlier this year heard that neither the father nor his killer Adam Fletcher were invited to the 21st birthday party on Princess Drive in West Derby on December 18 2021, instead being brought along by separate sets of friends. They were in "good spirits", but trouble erupted after Mr Stenson’s girlfriend, Samantha Rosser, went into the garden for a cigarette.
