A MAN who stabbed his brother in a kitchen during a row has been cleared of intending to do him serious harm.

From the witness box during the trial the knifing victim claimed that his brother Sheldon Gallacher had felt 'betrayed' after an earlier row, and then grabbed two blades.

The 25-year-old of Craufurd Road, Oxford, had already admitted one count of wounding of his brother and another of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against his mother.

READ AGAIN: A report from the opening of the case earlier this week.

Gallacher denied, however, the more serious charge of wounding with intent and his trial for that single count ended at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.

After just one hour and 32 minutes jurors found him unanimously not guilty of the single count he had faced.

Following the verdicts presiding Judge Nigel Daly agreed to adjourn sentencing of the other counts Gallacher admitted.

The case was adjourned so that a pre-sentence report could be prepared by the National Probation Service.

That report will explore all sentencing options and the case will be heard again on April 3.

During the brief trial this week prosecutors said the violence took place at a house on Stowford Road, Oxford, on September 2 last year.

Recalling the incident from the witness box stabbing victim Kasey Thompson said he had 'dozed off' at his home that night when he heard 'a load of shouting.'

He said his mother Marie Thompson called the police who arrived before later leaving the Barton address.

He told jurors that soon after he heard his brother Gallacher shouting from the downstairs kitchen and heard words including 'snitch' and 'whore.'

During the incident he was stabbed in the shoulder and suffered a collapsed lung that required hospital treatment.

While Gallacher had admitted the attack he had always denied he intended to cause serious harm.