I’m after killing Geordie’

Court told man said he knifed his nephew

A MAN accused of stabbing his nephew told a friend “I’m after killing Geordie”, a court heard yesterday.

George Morrison was knifed to death in an alley in the Antrim Road, North Belfast, in July 6, 2009.

His uncle Samuel Francis Morrison, 55, is on trial over the death of the 29-year-old. A women who lived in the same block as the deceased’s mother testified that in the hours prior to the stabbing, Samuel Morrison was drinking in her flat with others.

She told the jury that around 2.25am she heard shouting through her letterbox and a voice saying “It’s Samuel.” The witness said: “He had no T-shirt on and had blood on his chest.”

“He said, ‘I’m after killing Geordie’. He said, ‘Our John beat the c*** out of him. I stabbed him five times and slit his throat.’”

Morrison, 55, from Forthriver Park, North Belfast, was initially accused of murder.

However, it was determined he has a disability, has been deemed unfit and unable to plead to the charge

BELFAST VROWN COURT YESTERDAY

or participate in the proceedings.

The trial – expected to last two weeks – is to “determine the facts”. Morrison is watching via a video link from Prison.

At hearing.

Our John beat him and I stabbed him five times & slit his throat