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A man who killed his friend broke down in tears and issued a five-word message as he was jailed.

Andrew Behan brutally attacked Francis Leitner three times in the space of 30 minutes on December 21 last year.

He had headbutted and pushed him up against a car at a shop before repeatedly punching and elbowing him to the head back at the HMO where they both lived on Wyrley Road, Aston .

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Police took Mr Leitner to hospital where he soon lost consciousness as it emerged he had suffered a bleed on the brain.

Two days later he was pronounced brainstem dead and his life support was switched off.

Behan, aged 41, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Today (Wednesday, November 26) he was sentenced to six

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