A JURY have retired to determine whether or not Kevin George Smith was acting in self-defence when he stabbed rival Daniel Pettersson to death inside a home at Jesmond last year.
Mr Smith and Mr Pettersson had been in a relationship with the same woman and had been involved in a bitter dispute over paternity of a child before their rivalry came to a head during a volatile confrontation at a house in Michael Street on the afternoon of January 6.
