A Queensland man accused of murder allegedly laughed as he told his victim he was about to stab him, a court has heard.

March 13, 2019

A Brisbane man accused of murder laughed at the jealous lover of a woman he supplied drugs to before fatally stabbing him, a court has heard.

Darren James Lawler, 37, allegedly stabbed Paul Shannon Andrews three times in the stomach during a fight outside Lawler’s home in Mango Hill on July 27, 2018.

Mr Andrews, 42, was drunk and had hidden in bushes in front of Lawler’s home because he suspected his partner, Tiffany Rose Baker, was inside and having an affair with Lawler.

Ms Baker was inside – but it wasn’t love she had gone to find but drugs, she told the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

When she later stepped out the front door with Lawler and his girlfriend, a very drunk Mr Andrews jumped out and confronted the trio.

“He said ‘un-f***ing-fortunate c***, what’s my missus doing here?’” Ms Baker told magistrate Anthony Gett.

She remembers Mr Andrews then running at Lawler with an Absolut vodka bottle in one hand and a torch in the other.

Lawler was knocked to the ground by a blow to head with the torch but quickly got up and began wrestling with Mr Andrews.

Despite bleeding profusely from his head, Lawler got on top in the scuffle and put Mr Andrews in a headlock.

“I was kicking Darren (Lawler) in the ribs and trying to get him off,” Ms Baker said.

“He said ‘I will f***ing stab you c*** and with a real evil laugh.”

Ms Baker never spotted the knife in Lawler’s hand and didn’t initially realise Mr Andrews had even been stabbed, she said.

“He said ‘Tiff, I need help, I have been stabbed’,” Ms Baker said.

“I thought he was talking s*** and I said ‘hang on’.”

Emergency services were unable to revive Mr Andrews and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Lawler has been committed to stand trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court for  murder.