A man stabbed his mum, hugged her then left her bleeding to death outside a pub.
Jamie Dempsey today went on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of murdering his mum Karen Dempsey after fighting broke out at the Brambles in Kirkby in summer last year. A jury heard this afternoon that the son accidentally knifed his 55-year-old mother in the heart while trading blows with another male to whom he owed a drug debt of thousands of pounds.
It came after the 32-year-old was "glassed" inside the premises by Brian Flynn, who was also then stabbed. Afterwards, Dempsey claimed to have been acting in self-defence and told police "I was scared for my life, what do you want me to do?".
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