Prosecutors say Adam Fletcher stabbed Paul Stenson in the heart outside a house on Princess Drive in West Derby where they were both partying and that Suzy Lee, his then-girlfriend, was one of three people who tried to help him evade justice. Fletcher is currently on trial in the Liverpool Crown Court and is charged with murder and possession of an object. Lee and two of Fletcher’s friends, Demi Walsh and Nathan Finnegan, are accused of helping a perpetrator, and Lee also faces an additional charge of witness intimidation. The four deny the allegations. READ MORE:The stranger “stabbed the father of two children in the heart” after an argument at the party Yesterday, Richard Pratt, QC, told the court that Fletcher stabbed Paul Stenson at a birthday party on December 18, 2021, to which no one was invited by the host, but both attended after friends who were there told them to come. . The men had never met before, but Mr Pratt said that just hours after they first met, Fletcher, 28, stabbed 30-year-old Pratt after an altercation inside the house that escalated. He said that after telling the two men to leave the house, Fletcher grabbed a kitchen knife from inside before stepping out, holding the knife behind his back and stabbing 30-year-old Mr. Stenson in the back left side of his chest. Mr Pratt said an autopsy report confirmed that the knife went straight into Stenson’s heart, causing him to bleed rapidly to death. Opening the case yesterday, Mr Pratt also explained why Lee, Walsh and Finnegan were sitting in the bench next to him. He said the prosecution would aim to prove that each of them played a role in preventing police from finding Fletcher. 21-year-old Lee was Fletcher’s girlfriend and she was with him at the party. Mr. Pratt said Fletcher fled immediately after the knife, but messages between him and Lee in the hours that followed showed she had realized what she had done. One of Lee’s text messages, read in court by Mr Pratt, read: “Adam, I love you, leave the country.” In another, she told him she loved him again, but added “go away”. Jurors also heard that Lee visited Kim Williams, a witness at the party, and tried to intimidate her. Mr Pratt said Mrs Williams was giving her statement to a police officer when Lee called her. Mr Pratt said: “It can be heard saying ‘you all chat s *** in group chat as if I were a chat’. Many of you, you are all greens “. Lee also reportedly knew Fletcher’s whereabouts and allowed him to use her phone, and some messages were sent from him in the days following the knife allegedly coming from him. Lee, 21, of New Road, denies helping a perpetrator and intimidates a witness. Her co-defendants, Finnegan, 30, of Rosalind Way, and Walsh, 28, of Redbourn Street, both deny helping a perpetrator. In Walsh’s case, Mr Pratt said he had given false information to police, suggesting that another man was responsible for the knife, and that Finnegan was also fully aware of what Fletcher had done and had helped him evade justice anyway. Fletcher was arrested five days after Mr Stenson’s death and gave numerous interviews without comment to police. He eventually gave them a prepared statement saying that he agreed to stab Mr. Stenson but that he acted in self-defense. Mr Pratt said: “We say it is a desperate attempt to justify the unjustified – that he took a large knife and stabbed Paul Stenson with it.” Energy Read more related articles Read more related articles
