A former County Durham pharmacist has been found guilty of murdering his younger brother.
Inderjit Klare repeatedly stabbed his 40-year-old sibling Jasreet with a kitchen knife before leaving him to bleed to death. The 43-year-old then waited 90 minutes before calling for an ambulance. Jasreet, who was known to his family and friends as 'Jas', was attacked in their family fish and chip restaurant in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, during the early hours of October 9 last year.
Klare, of Eve Lane, Spennymoor, County Durham, had been facing a trial at Teesside Crown Court accused of murder - which he denied, claiming self-defence. But on Friday afternoon, the jury returned to deliver a guilty verdict to the charge of murder.
The jury previously heard how Klare and his brother had a "volatile" relationship and Jas had been ostracised by his family as he had left his wife and was living with a new partner. Prosecutor Jamie Hill KC, said a day before the murder, the two brothers had went out together in Houghton-le-Spring and Bishop Auckland and had been drinking alcohol and had taking cocaine.
They had drinks in The Sportsman Inn in the market place in Bishop Auckland with two local men and when the bar closed at 3am, they invited them back to the family restaurant - Carter's Fish Restaurant and Takeaway - for another drink. Klare, who is known to family and friends as 'Inde', was the manager of the business at the time.
But when they returned back to the shop, an argument ensued and Klare picked up a kitchen knife and attacked his brother. The two men who had been invited back for a drink tried to intervene but became frightened and escaped through a window. One of the men described how he watched as Klare had his brother on the ground and was trying to stab Jas with the knife.
Klare then stabbed his brother repeatedly with a knife, with one of the stab wounds severing an artery in his brother's right arm, leading to his death. The trial heard previously that Jas could have survived the attack if he had been given first aid straight away.
However, rather then call an ambulance immediately, Klare made an attempt to clean up the scene and used a hose pipe on his brother, before putting the murder weapon in a container and moving a CCTV recording into a cupboard.
Klare will be sentenced at Teesside Crown Court on Friday afternoon.
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