Alexander Walker, 33, attacked his friend James Curran in Glasgow last year.
A man who claimed his victim suffered a fatal fall has been convicted of killing him.
Walker - who had a history of violence - had claimed that Mr Curran had fallen down two flights of stairs. Paramedic John Shea told the trial he was called to the flats in the city's Wallace Street and found Mr Curran in "a bad way".Walker was also still there and he claimed the 38-year-old had "fallen two flights of stairs".Mr Shea told jurors: "When I told him his friend had gone, he seemed heartbroken.But Walker had fled by the time police arrived instead meeting a friend in the city centre.
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