The best friend of a man allegedly murdered during a violent confrontation outside a village pub has denied they had been “looking for a fight”. Jurors heard that Leigh Bean had driven Adam Pritchard to the Queen’s Head in Boughton-under-Blean on the night he was fatally stabbed. Giving evidence at Canterbury Crown Court last week, Mr Bean said his friend had told him he wanted to “have a beer” with another man at the pub – Craig Brabon – and was in a happy mood chatting about “daily life” as they made the short journey in Mr Pritchard’s Peugeot. Mr Bean said he had been asked to drive his fri…
