Leon Hazle murder: Man stabbed to death for 'looking at bus passenger'
A man stabbed and killed a complete stranger on the top deck of a bus after he ‘looked at him’ while he was trying to chat up a girl, a court heard.
Kieran Gillespie confronted Leon Hazle, aged 36, from Smethwick, on the number 11 and then knifed him to death multiple times, with what he told police were scissors used to cut his hair, a jury was told.
Moments before, the two had a row as the bus moved along Rookery Road, Handsworth, at around 10.30pm on January 23.
Gillespie, aged 25, from Wellesbourne Road, Handsworth, had initially sat near Mr Hazle, who he had never met, but moved to the back of the bus.
The defendant claimed he did not want to be near him as he rolled cannabis but he also ‘saw an opportunity’ to chat up a girl on the back row, the jury at Birmingham Crown Court heard today.
