Lithuanian man accused of Portadown murder insists he was acting in self-defence

Lithuanian man accused of Portadown murder insists he was acting in self-defence

Rolandas Kvederis, 49, died after sustaining seven stab wounds to his neck and lower back inside the property in Ranfurley Road last Thursday night

‘He came at me with a knife’: Portadown murder accused claims self-defence

A 51-year-old who appeared in court accused of a “frenzied and brutal” murder by stabbing a man seven times in the neck and back in a house in Portadown told police: “He came at me with a knife, I was defending myself”. Ruslanas Kovalkovas, with an address of Ranfurley Road, Portadown, appeared before District Judge Rosie Watters at Lisburn Magistrates’ Court on Monday afternoon accused of murdering 49-year-old Rolandas Kvederis at a property on…