An 18-year-old accused of murder claimed his mother's boyfriend walked into a machete that he was holding to defend himself.

Rohan Daniels told a jury he only ever shared 12 words with the man he is accused of stabbing to death during the time they shared a house in Sittingbourne.

The teenager – known as Sonny – and his mother's boyfriend David Perry, 40, lived in the same house for months prior to the incident, in December 2022, Maidstone Crown Court was told.

Mr Perry suffered eight stab wounds and 10 incised wounds and died at the scene.

The jury heard that Daniels had gone into his mother's room to get some tobacco.

A row over the fact it was missing ended with Daniels striking Mr Perry with a machete, it is alleged.

Daniels – who denies murder – told the court he had gone to his bedroom at his home in Medway Close, off College Road, when Mr Perry came in.

He said: “I saw David at the bottom of the stairs. It was unusual for him to have been there at that time of night.

“He was saying things but I wasn't able to make out what he was saying. He told me to come downstairs.

“He said ‘you can't go in my room and touch my things. I am not having it. I'm not scared of you. If you think you can keep on doing it.. then you have another thing coming’.”

He said Mr Perry told him that if things continued he would move out.

Daniels said: “I told him that there was the door and he could go. I then told him to go to bed and walked back up the stairs to go to my bedroom.

“I thought he looked drunk and or he was on something. I thought he wanted to fight me. I felt scared and I walked away to my bedroom.

“I sat on my bed. David came through the door and I picked up the machete, which I use in the garden, and told him to get the f*** out of my bedroom.

“I felt shocked, scared and I was panicking. He came in sideways. I had the knife in my right hand. I had picked up the knife to get him to leave my bedroom.

“I thought he wanted to fight with me. I feared he was going to hospitalise me or kill me,” he added.

He claimed that on previous occasions he had heard Mr Perry on the telephone threatening to shoot someone.

Daniels added that after coming into his bedroom Mr Perry punched him.

He said: “I felt a bit dazed. I was holding up the knife. I didn't see the knife go in him. He tried to punch me again.

“He grabbed hold of my T-shirt. He then walked away and leaned against the door frame before falling back into my bedroom.”

Earlier Daniels, who started smoking cannabis from the age of 14, told the court he had shown no anger towards his mother's boyfriend.

The trial continues.