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A man has denied murdering a pensioner described in online tributes as “a man with a big heart”. Ajay Porter appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on Monday in relation to the death of Derek O’Hare in Dover on December 11 last year. The 66-year-old was found by police with multiple injuries at an address in Anstee Road just after 10pm and declared dead at the scene. Porter, of Oswald Road, Dover, has now pleaded not guilty to Mr O’Hare’s murder as well as an offence of having a bladed article, namely a knife, on the same occasion. Danny Moore, defending, told the court that an issue for the jury …

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