A court has heard how a man was stabbed in his sleep at his Skegness property before the attacker discarded the knife in a nearby drain. Marcus Tott, 47, was found dead by his landlord at the property in Grosvenor Road on December 2 last year.
A two-week trial at Lincoln Crown Court heard how Richard Lee Norris, 54, of Hilsdon Drive in Shildon, County Durham, armed himself with a large kitchen knife. The motive is believed to be the breakdown of the relationship between Mr Tott and a woman who is a friend of Norris.
East Midlands Ambulance Service had attended a report to a patient not breathing at the property and then reported it to the police, with officers attending soon after 9.25am. A murder investigation was launched after it was confirmed Mr Tott had died from a stab wound to his chest, Lincolnshire Live reports.
