A WIRRAL man has been found guilty of stabbing his sister’s boyfriend to death over a petty family disagreement.
Carl Hunt had denied murdering Graham Duncan, insisting the father-of-two had “stumbled” on the knife during a scuffle.
But yesterday a jury at Liverpool Crown Court took about three hours to find him unanimously guilty.
During a week-long trial they had heard how Hunt had gone round to his sister Tracey’s house armed with a knife after an argument over the telephone.
But when her long-term boyfriend Mr Duncan answered the door, the two men began to argue.
Hunt then pulled out the black-handled kitchen knife and plunged it straight into Mr Duncan’s heart.
The father-of-two died on his own doorstep.
Hunt, of Harland Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead, denied the murder, insisting Mr Duncan must have fallen on to the knife during a fight.
But yesterday Judge John Roberts told the 31-year-old that a sentence of life in prison was the only one he could now pass.
