An alleged murderer said he discovered a burglar who targeted his home was a friend from primary school just seconds after fatally stabbing him in the neck.
Karl Townsend told a jury he realised he knew Jordan Brophy after inflicting a number of fatal wounds on him following a break-in at Townsend’s home. The 32-year-old had discovered Mr Brophy and two other men burgling his Halewood address last year.
Prosecutors allege Townsend then attacked Mr Brophy “out of revenge or punishment”, inflicting two sets of wounds on him, one inside his home when he found him there and another a few minutes later on Beechwood Avenue. Townsend and his half-brother Jamie Cunningham, 23, are on trial at Liverpool Crown Court for murder and possession of a bladed article. Both deny the charges.
