Addict fatally stabbed in row over injecting heroin

Addicts sharing a bag of heroin became embroiled in a fatal argument when one failed to find a vein to inject the drug into the other, the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.

Peter Jackson, aged 41, formerly of Kerryhall Rd, Fairhill, Cork City, has pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty of the manslaughter of 31-year-old Wexford man David Hamilton at a house on Kerryhall Rd on May 4, 2012.

Prosecution counsel Thomas O’Connell, SC, told the jury that the accused was trying to inject Mr Hamilton having already injected heroin into himself.