Jury considers verdict in Daniel Smith case

“I was fuming,” he said. “I believed that I had been jumped and I wasn’t having that. My head had gone completely so I armed myself with knives.”

Jurors retired yesterday lunchtime and were still deciding whether Smith was guilty of aggravated burglary and assault by beating as we went to press.

The court heard there had been a long-running dispute between Smith’s girlfriend and the family living next door in Victoria Road, Thornhill Lees.

On August 26 2011, Smith said he decided to get the ‘silly arguments’ sorted once and for all.

Smith told how he grabbed two Antony Worrall Thompson kitchen knives, started banging on his neighbours’ door, and shouted racist abuse and English Defence League slogans.

But he denied having the knives on him when was inside the house and cutting a man’s arm.

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