Lenville Waite, 59, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 17 years (Picture: SWNS)
A man who stabbed his brother to death over an incident at Lidl has been jailed.
Lenville Waite plunged a knife through the heart of his older sibling Clifton at their home in Waverley Road, Small Heath, in south-east Birmingham, last year.
Derby Crown Court was told the family had argued that day over a news story with a picture of Lenville, which implicated him in an incident at a Lidl where a security guard was attacked.
At one stage, the brothers left the property separately but resumed the quarrel after they had both returned.
He stabbed his older brother Clifton with a single fatal wound to his chest, during the dispute on November 7 last year (Picture: SWNS)
‘There was some confrontation, probably nothing to do with that, about a fan,’ Judge Shaun Smith KC told the 59-year-old defendant.
‘Going back to what you told the police your brother would find fault in quite a few things to start an argument. During the course of that the Lidl incident got brought up again.
‘Your brother said you could not do to him what you did to the Somalian, in reference to the security guard knocked to the floor at the shop. Your temper clearly just went at that moment in time.’
Previously, Lenville had again used a knife to scare his sibling during arguments, the court heard.
Police and forensics at the scene of the fatal stabbing on Waverley Road, Small Heath, Birmingham (Picture: SWNS)
The judge added: ‘I accept initially you picked up the knife in the way you picked it up previously.
‘But when your brother was not having that, when he was not going to desist as he had done previously and started wrestling you, that is when you decided, albeit momentarily, you were not going to use it to threaten him, you were going to use it to stab him and you did stab him.
‘And it went in the wrong place as far as he is concerned. It could have gone anywhere. It did not. He died very, very quickly.’
After the 61-year-old’s death, Lenville went on the run, first staying at a homeless shelter in Birmingham city centre.
He then travelled to Coventry where he bought new clothes from Primark before he was arrested.
Lenville told police he was ‘glad it is all over’ when he was arrested and was said to give a ‘consistent’ account of the background to the attack over the course of nine interviews.
The judge concluded the offence was ‘aggravated’ by the use of a knife but he accepted he had not premediated the killing and had an intention to cause ‘really serious harm’ but not an ‘intention to kill’.
Following a trial, Lenville was found guilty of murder, and was today sentenced to life with a minimum term of 17 years.
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He was arrested after going on the run, first staying at a homeless shelter in Birmingham.
