A DRUG user accused of knifing to death Deighton alcoholic Kim Driver has told a murder trial jury that he never visited the dead man’s flat on the night of the fatal stabbing.
Instead, Paul Kelly insisted he was with his partner taking drugs, or buying drugs from a dealer in Huddersfield.
Trainee welder Kelly, 31, began giving evidence at his trial yesterday and insisted that he was not responsible for murdering the 52-year-old at his ground floor flat in Crawthorne Crescent, Deighton, last July.
Kelly, of Abbey Road, Fartown, told Bradford Crown Court that he had been picked up by his former partner Paula Nugent after work and had gone back to her home in Leeds Road, Mirfield, to smoke drugs with her.
After smoking cocaine and cannabis at the house, Kelly said they went out again in Mr Driver’s Renault Megane, which Miss Nugent paid £60 a week to use, and bought more cocaine in the Birkby area.
At around 3am Kelly said he went out again in the Megane to buy more drugs and again returned to the house in Mirfield.
Kelly’s barrister Alistair McDonald QC asked: “Did you visit Kim Driver’s house or the area of Kim Driver’s house at all in that period?”
“No sir”, replied Kelly.
