Jamie Dempsey went on trial at Liverpool Crown Court this week accused of the murder his mum Karen.
The 55-year-old was stabbed in the heart by her son near to the Brambles pub in Kirkby in summer last year as he was fighting with another man, who had earlier "glassed" him inside, over a drug debt. He then hugged her and fled the scene.
Dempsey, 32, later asked a cousin to burn the clothes he was wearing and bought beers from an off-licence before handing himself in to police. Here is what the jury was told during the first week of the trial:
