Edward Wilson, 39, killed Akeem Francis-Kerr with a single stab wound to the neck at Valesha’s nightclub in Walsall just after 5am on March 11.
A jury of six men and six women found Wilson guilty of murder at Stafford Crown Court on Wednesday after just over 13 hours of deliberations.Mr Francis-Kerr, 29, was dead within an hour of being stabbed in the neck after the knife pierced both his carotid and his jugular veins in what prosecutors say was a dispute over who was standing where in the nightclub.
Wilson had said he simply asked Mr Francis-Kerr to move so he could retrieve his drink that he had left in the corner while he went to the toilet, but he responded by saying: “I’m not f****** moving.” They got back in the Audi that Wilson had driven to the club, along with a female friend, and they drove away until the female realised she had left her phone behind and they went back so she could retrieve it.In his evidence, he said: “I asked, what do you mean?
Two days after the stabbing, Wilson had checked into an apartment in Sheffield which had been booked by his ex-partner for the week of March 13-17. When asked by his defence barrister Nigel Edwards KC why he did not tell police the truth if he knew his friend had admitted stabbing Mr Francis-Kerr, Wilson said he was afraid that it would put his son and his mother in danger.
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