Killer gets 20 years for pub stabbing

Plaistow

A thug who stabbed a peacemaker to death after he intervened in a mass brawl during a marathon St Patrick’s Day drinking session was jailed for 20 years today (Mon). Reece Hussain, 21, plunged a knife twice into the chest and stomach of father-of-one Edward Stokes, 29, after vowing ‘someone’s going to die tonight’. Moments earlier Mr Stokes, a member of the travelling community from Coalisland, Northern Ireland, shook hands with a friend of Mr Hussain as if to sort…

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