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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/man-admits-killing-british-tourist.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Paul Lavern Ritch died after being stabbed in the chest" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-man-admits-killing-british-tourist.jpg" alt="Paul Lavern Ritch died after being stabbed in the chest"/></a></p>
<p>A man has admitted killing a Welsh tourist, once named one of Britain&#8217;s most eligible bachelors, more than three years ago &#8211; but claims it was in self-defence.</p>
<p>Robert Davies said that he mistook Lavern Paul Ritch, of Penarth, for part of a gang of Mexicans bent on harming or killing him when he lashed out with a pocket knife, piercing Mr Ritch&#8217;s heart.</p>
<p>Prosecutors in Mays Landing, New Jersey, say Mr Ritch was actually intervening in a fight between Davies and a man who had punched him in the face moments earlier, thinking he was helping Davies.</p>
<p>Davies says Mr Ritch ran up to him from behind and surprised him, causing him to lash out with the knife.</p>
<p>Mr Ritch was a contestant on the Gladiators reality TV show and was once named among Britain&#8217;s most eligible bachelors.</p>
<p>Robert Davies is representing himself in his trial on murder and weapons charges, among others.</p>
<p>In his opening statement to the jury he said he mistook Lavern Paul Ritch for part of a group of Mexicans who were chasing him after one of them had assaulted him, bloodying his face.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said the incident on August 12 2007 was touched off by a racist insult Davies hurled toward a Mexican man in the men&#8217;s room of a bar in Margate, a Jersey shore community a few miles south of Atlantic City.</p>
<p>Davies told the jury that the prosecutor in the case &#8220;has presented that Lavern Paul Ritch was an innocent victim, and that I killed him. That I did; it&#8217;s a fact. I wish I could change that. But there&#8217;s a difference between being an innocent bystander and someone who interjects himself into a gang-style assault&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Ritch appeared as a contestant in the British version of Gladiators in 1998, making it to the quarter-finals. He was a swimming and fitness instructor in Cardiff, was listed in a 2002 poll of Britain&#8217;s 50 most eligible bachelors by Company magazine; and was named the 12th most eligible man in Wales that same year in a local newspaper.</p>
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