Killer of Lorik Abazi claims he was trying to protect his Valentine’s Day date

A killer who stabbed a man through the heart told a court he was trying to protect his Valentine’s Day date from ‘a pack of animals.’ Ellis Anim-Annor, 29, knifed Lorik Abazi, 22, to death outside a ten-pin bowling alley in Croydon in the early hours of 15 February. Jurors at the Old Bailey heard he was in a white BMW with his girlfriend Ines Bernardo when someone from Mr Abazi’s group remarked on his date’s appearance. Anim-Annor then got…