Man 'grinned as he stabbed murder victim'

A Waterford man “was grinning” as he repeatedly stabbed another man after intervening in a fight over a CD, a witness at the Central Criminal Court has claimed.

Mr Rossa Blackmore was giving evidence in the trial of Mr Anthony Stone (aged 21) from Ardmore Park, Ballybeg, Waterford, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Simon Carton (aged 33), who died on September 8 last following a row at his flat on Barrack Street in Waterford city.