A KILLER battered a friend to death - while awaiting sentence for an earlier attack on him.
William Jackson, 51, fatally assaulted Walter Littlejohn at his flat in Govanhill, Glasgow in July this year.
He had days earlier told a nurse that he wanted to punch the 56-year-old "all the time" - but no action was taken.
Jackson had already been convicted of attacking his friend in 2013.
He faced a murder allegation when he appeared at the High Court in Glasgow. But, prosecutors instead accepted his guilty to the reduced charge of culpable homicide.
Jackson was remanded in custody and will learn his fate in the New Year.
He had been on bail for assaulting Mr Littlejohn in July 2013 when he carried out the fatal attack in July this year. The sentencing had been adjourned until December this year.
Jackson then went on to kill his friend at his flat in the city's Jamieson Street.
The death came to light on August 1 when Jackson called an ambulance claiming he had found Mr Littlejohn lying dead in a chair.
A post mortem examination found Mr Littlejohn had been assaulted.
He was found to have bleeding in the skull, rib fractures, injuries to his bowel and liver as well as bruising.
It was also found he had defensive-type injuries.
Judge Lord Bannatyne deferred sentencing until next month for reports.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article