A MURDER trial jury has retired to consider its verdict following the stabbing of Carlton Alexander in Bolton.
Ross Ashcroft, aged 31, of no fixed address, has denied murdering 23-year-old Mr Alexander after an altercation in Brightmeadow Close, Breightmet, in the early hours of December 12 last year.
During a week long trial, the jury at Manchester Crown Court heard how Mr Alexander had become angry after finding four men, including Ashcroft, at his girlfriend Keshia Seaton's home and had chased them out into the street where Ashcroft stabbed him twice with a kitchen knife.
Ashcroft did not give evidence in the witness box, but in a statement read out in court claimed that he had been acting in self defence and never intended to kill Mr Alexander.
The jury will continue their deliberations on Tuesday.
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