Murder charge laid after stab victim dies

A 21-year-old has been charged with murder after the death of a father of seven, stabbed in South Auckland on Tuesday night.

The 32-year-old victim died in Middlemore Hospital after being stabbed several times in the back during a brawl on a forecourt between Burger King and a Caltex petrol station in Papatoetoe.

A courier driver from Manurewa will appear in the Manukau District Court this morning charged with his murder

Police said last night they had found a knife believed to have been used.