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- Adam Jenkins will be sentenced for the killing of Simon Birch today after he was found guilty of manslaughter earlier this month.
- He slashed his sister’s partner across the throat with a knife following a drunken row on Christmas Day in Newbottle, near Houghton-le-Spring, in December 2021.
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