Young 'gentle giant' father stabbed to death by 'pigheaded' yob while trying to break up neighbour row:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
A father was stabbed to death by a neighbour after trying to calm a dispute over a bonfire.
Jim Cushing, 37, was using a watering can to extinguish embers near a wooden fence when David Stubbs, 53, ran out of his house and stabbed him twice in the back.
Mr Cushing, who was married with a two-year-old son, died within minutes, despite paramedics' efforts to save him.
Stubbs, who was described by his own defence team as a "pig-headed, bloody-minded, obstinate man", often lit fires to antagonise others near his home in Norwich.
The unemployed father of three denied murder, claiming he acted in self-defence after being bullied by neighbours.
But he was jailed for life after a jury took just four hours to convict him.
Norwich Crown Court heard how Stubbs had been the subject of numerous complaints in the eight years he had lived on the street. Police had been called to his home many times.
The murder took place on June 13 last year when he was rude to a neighbour, Julie Burgess, after she complained about a fire he had lit.
Her husband, Ian Burgess, went to remonstrate with him and was hit with a metal pole after losing his temper-and kicking over the incinerator.
Mr Cushing, a 6ft delivery driver regarded as a "gentle giant" by his friends, was asked to calm the situation.
He was putting out embers near the incinerator when Stubbs, armed with a knife, rushed out of his house in a rage.
The first stab wound punctured Mr Cushing's lung and proved fatal.
Speaking after the case, Mr Cushing's widow Kim, who has been left to bring up their son Kyle alone, said: "Jim was not involved in any argument. He had never spoken to the man who killed him.
"He didn't see the man approaching and had no chance to defend himself.
"I have lost the husband I loved and Kyle has lost the best daddy he could have ever had."
The article doesn't say if that was an "English life sentence" or not.
One point for the murder, two points for taking a father away from his child and a husband away from his wife, another point for stabbing someone who had nothing to do with your stupid argument, and one more point for being an all around yob. That's 5.
I think at this point even if converted the points to metric England would still be out in front of every one else.
Nod of Doom to Stephanie.
