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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Callum Parke

Teenager fatally stabbed pensioner after randomly walking into house, court told

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A teenager fatally stabbed a pensioner through the heart after randomly walking into an unlocked house to carry out the attack, a court has heard.

Gerald Wickes, a 79-year-old great-grandfather, died from a single blow inflicted as he was visiting his ex-wife and son at a house in Queens Park Way, Eyres Monsell, Leicester, on February 22.

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