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Evening Standard
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Stephanie Wareham

Man accused of murdering Iraq War veteran ‘just wanted to give him a black eye’

A man accused of murdering an Iraq War veteran he punched three times has denied he intended to cause him serious harm, telling a jury he “just wanted to give him a black eye”.

Gregory Twigg, 32, disagreed that he was “fired up on drink and coke and raging” when he confronted medically-retired British Army veteran Lee Woodward, 39, in Stoke-on-Trent on the night of June 24 2022, leaving him brain damaged.

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