THE brother of a man stabbed to death in Parklea jail had to be removed from the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday after a jury found Belmont man Emmett Sheard was acting in self-defence during the frenzied knife fight. Mr Sheard was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter over the death of 33-year-old Michael Black, a jury left with no doubt he was defending himself after being attacked twice and slashed in the chin during a dispute over buprenorphine.
Mr Sheard walked free from the dock after more than two years behind bars awaiting trial. The verdicts triggered an outpouring of emotion in the public gallery where a man shouted "he stabbed my brother to death" and "this is a joke".
