A clubber has been found guilty of stabbing someone five times inside Oceana Kingston.
Hoopang Wong, 25, had claimed he knifed Karlos Fredericks accidentally with a weapon he found lying on the floor.
But three hours and 38 minutes after retiring to consider, jurors returned a guilty verdict on the charge of wounding with intent durng the attack on May 20 this year.
Darren Henry, 24, who had been in the club with Wong that night, was cleared of wounding with intent and actual bodily harm. It was alleged he was punching Fredericks while Wong stabbed him.
The jury had heard about Wong's two convictions for carrying a knife but he had said he had changed his ways before the stabbing.
He told the court he found the flick knife on the floor of the club after falling down the stairs during a fight with Mr Frederick.
He said he picked it up out of panic and stabbed him accidentally when he tried to stand up again.
Mr Henry and Wong embraced after the verdicts were delivered.
Judge Michael Hunter, sitting as a recorder, said: "You have heard that I want to find out more about you and I'm asking for reports.
"As you will have been told by your learned counsel the obvious sentence in this case has to be imprisonment.
"The length and the nature of that sentence I have to consider and I want to find out more about you. That is the only reason I am not sentencing you today."
Wong will be sentenced on Friday, December 7.
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