Teenager guilty of manslaughter over man's stabbing death after he claimed self-defence
A jury has found a teenager guilty of manslaughter after he claimed to have acted in self-defence when he fatally stabbed a man in the chest using a knife with a 26-centimetre blade.
The Brisbane Supreme Court jury returned its verdict today after deliberating for nine hours following a four-day trial on the count of murder with an alternative charge of manslaughter.
The 18-year-old man, who cannot be named as he was aged 17 at the time, followed David George Connolly, 43, as he left a shopping centre car park in Wilston in Brisbane's inner north just after midnight on January 22, 2023.
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