Plumber faces murder charge
Published: 00:00, 22 August 2002
A 34-YEAR-OLD plumber is due before Canterbury magistrates today charged with murder following a stabbing incident.
Mark Laverick, of Partridge Close, Broomfield, Herne Bay, is accused of killing a 39-year-old neighbour who has not yet been named.
Police and an ambulance were called to the cul-de-sac shortly after midnight on Friday and the victim taken to the Queen Mother Hospital at Margate with a stab wound where he died shortly after.
Mr Laverick was arrested and questioned at Canterbury police station until he was charged with murder on Sunday.
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