A fight between childhood friends that ended in murder could have just been a "punch up" had a knife not been carried, a senior police officer said
James Cromwell, 27, died from a single stab wound to the heart from Abdul Korim Ali in Cambridge on 30 June last year. Ali, whom a court heard was a "habitual" carrier of knives "just in case", was jailed for life in January. The pair had been at primary school together but had a confrontation on Darwin Drive - where Ali lived - over drug supply
Cambridge Crown Court heard the stabbing was a "spontaneous act arising out of anger" and Mr Cromwell collapsed "literally bleeding to death" in a nearby street.
Ali confessed to the murder in a phone call to Mr Cromwell's brother Luke and was labelled a "hypocrite" for leaving flowers at the scene of his victim's death. Det Insp Page added he felt no sympathy for Ali but did "feel sadness that one young man has lost his life and another is going to be in prison for a considerable amount of his".
