A killer who stabbed a man to death then boasted: “I am a murderer and I like it” has been jailed for life.<\/p>\n
Daniel Brown attacked Daryl Nimmo, 25, at a flat in Dalry, North Ayrshire, in April.<\/p>\n
The High Court in Glasgow heard Brown, 19, had been released by police just 24 hours earlier having being caught with two knives in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
Judge Lord Matthews ordered him to be detained for 15 years and 10 months before being eligible for parole.<\/p>\n
The judge told Brown: “You have pleaded guilty to the murder of Daryl Nimmo.<\/p>\n
“His loss has had a devastating effect on his family. It was an untimely and needless death.<\/p>\n
“It was a sustained and vicious attack.”<\/p>\n
The court had heard Mr Nimmo, who Brown had only recently met for the first time, was in a relationship with a friend of the killer’s mother.<\/p>\n
On 12 April, the day before the killing, Brown was held by police in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
He was charged after being found with a knife in his waistband as well as another hidden in his sock.<\/p>\n
Brown went on to take a taxi from the capital to Dalry to visit his mum’s friend, Linda O’Neil.<\/p>\n
At the time she was in a relationship Mr Nimmo.<\/p>\n
Brown claimed he was visiting as he had fallen out with his own girlfriend.<\/p>\n
The next day, hours before the murder, Brown made a Facebook video call to his mother brandishing a machete-type knife and threatening to stab people.<\/p>\n
Brown then joined Ms O’Neil and Mr Nimmo at her home.<\/p>\n
Ms O’Neill was later awoken by a blood-soaked Brown yelling: “I’ve killed somebody.”<\/p>\n
Brown claimed he had kicked Mr Nimmo in the head “to make sure he was dead”<\/p>\n
The killer then escaped through a window he smashed.<\/p>\n
But he went on to boast about the stabbing and added: “I am a murderer and I like it.”<\/p>\n
Mr Nimmo was found to have 10 wounds to his neck and chest. He also had injuries to his arm, hands, head and stomach.<\/p>\n
Brown, of West Pilton, Edinburgh, had convictions for having offensive weapons.<\/p>\n
He was also guilty of an assault a month before the murder.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"