Jericho killer Greg Muinami is due before Oxford Crown Court today to be sentenced for the murder of Alex Innes.
The 19-year-old was found guilty in June of causing the stab wound that killed Mr Innes, 25, in Walton Street, Jericho, in the early hours of November 13 last year.
His sentencing has already been put-off once, with lawyers telling Judge Ian Pringle KC in July that they needed further time to compile medical reports.
During the trial, prosecutors suggested that Mr Innes and Muinami had argued over an alleged debt for a pair of expensive trainers that the teenager owed the older man.
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They could be seen on CCTV having a heated discussion on the terrace of the Love Jericho cocktail bar before, with others, going around to the junction with Walton Crescent.
It was here that, prosecutors said, the victim received the fatal chest wound.
He ran back to the cocktail bar and picked up a glass, but was chased off by three teenagers – all acquitted of murder at their trial earlier this summer – and collapsed to the ground further up Walton Street.
Muinami, of Cranham Street, Jericho, was not in the dock to hear the jury find him guilty of murder and possession of a bladed article.
He faces a mandatory life sentence, with a ‘tariff’ – the amount of time he must spend in prison before he is eligible for release – in double figures.
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