‘It was self defence,’ claims stabbing teenager

A teenager accused of stabbing an elderly man to death during a dispute with a drugs gang told a court ‘it would have been me’ if he had not acted in self defence. Peter Tutton, 19, said he was scared after 60 year-old Keith Sinclair threatened to kill him during a row at the victim’s flat in Bow, east London. He claimed he had ‘no idea’ that Mr Sinclair had suffered such serious injuries in the fight, including five stab…