00:42 EDT, 27 April 2021
A groom-to-be who fatally stabbed his brother days before he was due to get married should be acquitted of murder because he was acting in self-defence, a Brisbane court has heard.
Bernard John Robbins is on trial charged with murdering Gregory Robbins, 61, at a home in Buderim on the Sunshine Coast on June 2019.
Bernard Robbins, 59, admitted he stabbed his brother seven times after a night of drunken arguments, but says he was being held in a headlock, unable to breathe from being choked.
He grabbed a knife from a nearby massage table, fearing his brother would injure him or do serious harm, defence barrister Damian Walsh told the Brisbane Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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