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Sophie Robinson

Stab victim ‘gave grief’ to murder-accused’s friend over £20 debt, trial told

Noah Smedley (Derbyshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

An 18-year-old man who was stabbed in the heart with a Rambo-style knife had given “grief” over a £20 cannabis debt to the friend of a teenager accused of his murder, a trial has heard.

Jurors were told that Charles Hartle, 18, wearing a balaclava, grinned when he “thrust” the knife into Noah Smedley’s chest after a drug deal in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, on the evening of December 28 last year.

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