A man on trial for the murder of a dad of three outside a village pub has told a jury he had only wanted to “scare off” his alleged victim with the knife used to kill him. Giving evidence at Canterbury Crown Court, William Cosier said he had armed himself after spotting Adam Pritchard with a gun during their confrontation at The Queen’s Head in Boughton-under-Blean. The 34-year-old claimed ‘attacking’ Mr Pritchard with the large blade he had grabbed from the pub kitchen was “the last thing” he wanted to do, telling the court he had in fact tried to “diffuse the situation from start to finish”….
