A global gay love triangle that ended in the death of one lover and a murder charge against another was heard in an Australian court yesterday (5 November).

Mohammad Ahmed Almansouri, 39, is plead not guilty of fatally stabbing Kenneth Horack, 48, 14 times last year.

Speaking at the West Australian Supreme Court, Horack’s partner of 17 years Benjamin Campbell was reported to have shed tears as he was called to give evidence.

Campbell, a 44-year-old American, told the court he lived with Horack in Texas until he moved to Qatar to work as a project manager in August 2007.

In 2009, Campbell met Almansouri on a website and started a relationship with him, and told Horack a few months later. He added his long-term partner was sad but accepted his romantic friendship.

When the work was finished, Campbell moved back to live with Horack in the suburbs of Perth, Australia.

Almansouri, who was accompanied in court by an Arabic translator, came to live with the couple in a spare room on April 2011.

‘Kenny said: “You’re at home, you sleep with me”,’ Campbell said.

Prosecutor Laura Christian told the jury that on the night of Horack’s death, 4 August 2011, Campbell was out to dinner with his bosses.

She said Almansouri called Campbell about 7pm, crying, saying ‘I killed Kenny!’, and asked Campbell to return home.

The prosecutor continued to say the police arrived at 7.30pm, and found Horack slumped over and covered in blood with a knife nearby. No one else was in the house.

There were signs of a struggle in the lounge and a pool of blood and stains on the couch.

Campbell arrived home around 7.40pm, and Almansouri arrived shortly afterwards and was immediately arrested, Christian added.

Defense lawyer Laurie Levy asked the jury to keep an open mind, and said his client did not act in a ‘jealous rage’.

He alleged Almansouri discovered Horack with another man, and added his client was stabbed in the buttocks first and acted in self-defense.

Horack suffered 14 stab wounds to his head, neck, chest, arm, leg and shoulder, three of which would have been fatal on their own.

The trial continues.