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A teenager stabbed a pensioner through the heart with a 20cm blade after following his elderly ex partner home, a court heard.
'Calm' Daniel Rounce walked into Linda Love's property through an unlocked door before attacking Gearald Wickes, 79, who was visiting her, it is alleged.
Roucne, who was 17 at the time, had gone missing from sheltered accommodation nearby the day earlier, Leicester Crown Court heard on Monday.
The teenager, now 18, denies murder. Opening the case, Steven Bailey, said Rounce 'said very little' after walking into the house and stabbing Mr Wickes just once.
'You will hear that is all it took,' Mr Bailey said.
Gearald Wickes, 79, (pictured) was fatally stabbed with a 20cm blade after following his elderly ex partner home, Leicester Crown Court has heard
Jurors were told that the afternoon of February 22 last year, Mr Wickes had gone to visit his ex partner, Linda Love and their son, Gary Wickes, at her home in Eyres Monsell, Leicester.
The court heard he was in 'pretty good health' for his age and enjoyed a good social relationship with his former partner.
They were speaking in the lounge of the property when Rounce walked in through an unlocked door, jurors were told.
Mr Bailey told how the killer 'ignored questions about what he was doing'.
'He said very little,' he told jurors.
'He told them he would decide what happens next.'
Mr Bailey said when Mr Wickes told him that his son Gary was also in the house, he pulled out a large knife that was concealed within his clothing and stabbed him just once.
Mr Bailey said: 'By 5.21pm Gerald Wickes was dead'.
'Somebody had stabbed him with one blow in the left hand side of his chest with a large knife'.
He said the blade was 19 and a half centimetres long and had gone through Mr Wickes' heart, down through his diaphragm and 'the point ended up near his kidney'.
'Although he was able to to move and speak a
