The 21 year-old was charged with the murder of his mother's partner Edward Cornet after he stabbed him through the heart. Jack sobbed as he thanked the jury for their not guilty verdict. He walked free from Warwick Crown Court in tears. The jury had ...
During the trial the court heard that the 55-year-old was stabbed three times in the chest and died from his injuries after the incident in the garden of his Hatton Park home on May 2, 2015. Defending, Jane Bickerstaff QC, said Mr Cornet had a history ...
The jury in the Hatton Park murder trial have been sent out to consider a verdict after hearing four days of evidence. Jack Merrilees, 21, of Linkway pleaded not guilty to murdering his stepfather, Edward Cornet following an argument at his mother's ...
On the way back to Hatton Park, they stopped at a bookies for Mr Cornet to put a bet on a boxing title fight taking place that night, and after they got back they streamed some boxing and extreme fighting videos from Becky's laptop onto the television ...
A man died from three stab wounds to the chest, one of which went through his heart, a murder jury has heard. Edward Cornet, 55, died in hospital hours after an incident at his house in Blackwell Lane, Hatton Park, Warwick, last May. Jack Merrilees, 21 ...
And Jack Merrilees then disclosed that he had dropped the knife with which he had stabbed Edward Cornet in the garden of Mr Cornet's home at Hatton Park, near Warwick. But Merrilees, 21, of Linkway, Leamington, whose mother was Mr Cornet's partner, ...