Benjamin Katabana, 28, has gone on trial accused of the murder of Ucheena Okirie, following a fatal attack in shared student accommodation in the city at Somerleyton House, off Unthank Road.

Norwich Crown Court heard Katabana and 33-year-old Mr Okirie, a Nigerian national who was also known as Uche, knew each other but had fallen out "over money".

Mr Okirie, a former post-graduate student at the University of East Anglia's School of International Development, suffered a stab wound that went through his windpipe and aorta - the main artery in the body - in the attack on November 22 last year.

Norwich Crown Court (Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest)

On Tuesday (May 19) a jury of nine men and three women were told about messages between the men - who both lived at Somerleyton House - in the moments before the attack, including "repeated attempts" by Katabana to get Mr........

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