THE killer of a journalist has been jailed for 12 years as the full horror of his violent past emerged.
Former BBC Scotland newsman Phillip Cottrell was found unconscious in a street in New Zealand in December 2011.
The 43-year-old had been attacked on his way home from a nightshift at a radio station in Wellington.
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