A MAN confessed to police to stabbing an alleged murder victim, the High Court in Aberdeen heard this afternoon.
And a police witness told the Aberdeen court how accused Paul Balgowan led Grampian Police officers to where a knife had been stashed.
Balgowan, 24, is on trial at the High Court in Aberdeen charged with the murder of Cove man Alan Bennett.
He is accused of striking Mr Bennett on the head and body with a knife before murdering him and robbing him of his wallet.
Balgowan continues to deny the charges after his co-accused and ex-girlfriend dramatically admitted killing the businessman and lodged a guilty plea to a culpable homicide charge.
As reported in later editions of yesterday’s Evening Express, Julie Carroll, 24, was remanded in custody after lodging the plea during the second week of evidence against the pair at the High Court in Aberdeen.
Today video footage was shown to the jury at the Aberdeen court of Balgowan confessing to Grampian Police Detective Sergeant Kara Robertson.
When Balgowan told Det Sgt Robertson he had stabbed Mr Bennett, he said: “I was just intending to rob him. I showed him the knife and told him to give me his wallet and started fighting with him.”
In the interview, Balgowan said he did not think he had killed Mr Bennett. He added: “I wasn’t intending to kill him.”
Det Sgt Richard Taylor earlier told theHigh Court in Aberdeen how Balgowan took him to two Aberdeen streets where evidence was found.
He said Balgowan had been “willing” to take officers to where a knife and bag stuffed with clothes had been found.
He said that a knife had been recovered from undergrowth on Aberdeen’s Dee Street and the bag from inside a green wheelie bin on Powis Terrace.
The trial at Aberdeen High Court continues.
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