A court has heard how a man was lured out in the middle of the night to a cul-de-sac street where he was then tragically stabbed with a ceremonial dagger as he sat in a car.
According to Birmingham Live, it was claimed Gary Warner's attacker was Kane Stenhouse who allegedly held a grudge against Warner.
Stonehouse, 20, from Birmingham, has denied the murder of Mr Warner on October 31 last year.
Prosecuting at Birmingham Crown Court, James Dawes QC reported that the alleged attack took place at 4:57am on an estate in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.
He said: "It was dark, it was raining. Gary Warner was sitting on the driver's side of a stationary Skoda.
"A man appeared from the entrance of an alleyway between parked cars.
"He pulled out a large ceremonial dagger from his clothes and he stabbed Gary Warner deep into his chest as he sat in the driver's seat.
"He stabbed him through the window and as he stabbed him he said 'That is for my brother," said Mr Dawes.
He continued: "Gary Warner died later that day from the deep stab wound. He was 31 when he died.
"A subsequent police investigation revealed that the attacker had made plans for Gary Warner to come to Stone Avenue.
"He was lying in wait for him armed with a ceremonial dagger.
"This incident has all the hall marks of pre arranged trap.
"The man who set the trap and held the dagger and stabbed Gary Warner to death was this defendant.
"He set this trap because he had a long-standing grudge against Mr Warner because he blamed him for injuring his brother in a fight seven years ago, in 2013."
Mr Dawes said that the defendant was an unemployed carpenter who lived in Stone Avenue, a cul-de-sac with his parents, and that his brother lived in a flat just a minute away at the other end of the alleyway.
The alleged stabbing, he said, took place about 30 yards from Stonehouse's front door and the court would also be hearing about his girlfriend who lived about six minutes away, also on the estate.
Mr Dawes said the case also concerned a car journey taken from the estate to a public house in West Heath.
The trial continues.
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