Race hate insults led to stabbing

A killer wielding two knives hunted down and stabbed a drinker through the heart after an exchange of racist insults, a court heard. Keith Nelson, 52, was caught on CCTV plunging a blade into Alfred Purcell’s chest outside a newsagents in East Ham, east London, on June 26 last year. The 34-year-old’s sister, Connie Purcell, tried to intervene and suffered a cut to her breast during the attack, the Old Bailey heard. But nothing could be done to save ‘Alfie’…