![]() Brian got on the phone and said if I didn't pay him next week, I'd be dead. "Later on that night, I got a phone call off the person I owed the money to. As I grabbed the phone, he punched me and put me on my back. "He offered me a phone and said someone wants to speak to you. On the stand, the dad-of-two said of this incident: "I'd never spoke to him in my life. But the defendant told them this morning he in fact "owed one of his friends".ĭempsey described how he had been attacked previously by him at a nearby pub in March 2022 - by which time he had been "off cocaine for a few months", with the debt being "about a year old". Jurors had previously heard he had owed the debt to Mr Flynn. READ MORE: Murdered man was a 'beautiful personality with a gentle, loving soul' Dempsey also turned to his family in the public gallery and told them he was "proper sorry" at one stage. The 32-year-old was called to give evidence from the witness box today, Thursday.ĭuring his tearful testimony, he claimed he had previously been subjected to death threats from Brian Flynn - who was also stabbed at least five times during the incident in summer last year, suffering injuries including a punctured lung - over the unpaid cocaine money. Jamie Dempsey is currently standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of murdering his mother Karen, having knifed her in the chest while fighting with another man over a £2,000 drug debt outside the Brambles pub in Kirkby. A nan told her son "you're a divvy" after he stabbed her in the heart, a jury was told today.
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