Jamie Murray killed Mark Hennings over 50c, Brisbane court hears

A MAN was stabbed to death by a stranger in the street following a row over 50 cents, a court has heard.

Fifty cent coin. 50 currency money. /Money/Australia

A MAN was stabbed to death by a stranger in the street following a row over 50 cents, a court has heard.

The Brisbane Supreme Court heard an audio recording from the harrowing emergency call made to police as Mark Hennings, 49, was stabbed through his heart on December 17, 2012 as he walked home with his partner.

Jamie Lloyd Murray, 21, has admitted killing Hennings in Bluebell Park at Caboolture but pleaded not guilty to murder on the first day of his trial on Wednesday.

The court heard Murray first approached the couple demanding 50 cents as they walked home from the pub and became violent when the couple refused.

After Mr Hennings’ partner Joanna Mansfield gave Murray the change in a bid to diffuse the argument he fled the scene.

But only minutes later he again approached the couple armed with a knife.

The jury heard the urgent triple-zero call Ms Mansfield made to police and the agonising moment she realises her boyfriend has been stabbed.

She is heard hysterically screaming as she pleads with Murray to “f*** off” before telling police “my boyfriend’s been stabbed by an Aboriginal man”.

“I was on the phone and asking for an ambulance because (Murray) took off and Mark was standing there clutching his chest and he fell to the ground and said he’d been stabbed,” Ms Mansfield told the court.

Crown prosecutor David Meredith said Murray intended to murder or inflict life threatening injuries on Mr Hennings when he stabbed him in the chest and denied that racial slurs were made against him.

But defence counsel Stephen Courtney claimed Murray “lost control” after being provoked by racially abusive language during the stabbing and did not intend to kill Mr Hennings.