A NEWCASTLE man who claims he was acting in self-defence when he repeatedly stabbed another inmate at a Sydney jail was out for "revenge" after being "humiliated" in an earlier fight, a jury has been told.
Emmett Raymond Sheard on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to murdering 33-year-old Michael Black at Parklea Correctional Centre in April 2020 and faced the first day of a trial in NSW Supreme Court. Mr Sheard is accused of using a shiv to stab Mr Black eight times in a frenzied attacked while the pair were in a packed holding cell waiting to appear in court. The stabbing occurred after Mr Black and Mr Sheard had about five minutes earlier been involved in a fist fight over buprenorphine, an opiate replacement drug, the jury heard on Tuesday.
