Shocking police bodycam footage shows a murderer confessing to police before he sobered up and forced his victim's family to endure a trial.
Lee Abbott knifed pub landlord Christian Thornton to death after the dad-of-three barred him from the Hammer & Pincers in Widnes.
The killer used a large kitchen knife concealed in a rucksack to inflict 11 wounds, including a serious stab injury to the heart, on his defenceless victim.
After the horrendous attack, captured on CCTV cameras at the Liverpool Road, Hough Green pub, Abbott fled.
The 35-year-old went to a nearby friend's house, where he washed his bloodstained clothes and hung them on a radiator to dry.
But just over an hour after the killing, on the afternoon of Sunday, August 11 last year, armed police raided the address and arrested him.
The shocking footage shows Abbott after he came out of the house, wearing only a pair of borrowed boxer shorts.
Abbott, who had been on a cocaine, wine and cider bender the night before, says: "I know exactly what you're saying, I've done it - I'll admit everything."
As a dog barks loudly in the background, he confirms his name and adds: "I attacked that Chris, yeah. It's all me, it's all my fault right, yeah."
The bare chested man says: "I'll admit everything, I'm not going to deny nothing - that’s the way it is."
He is arrested on suspicion of murder and asks: "Is he dead? I'll tell you the truth, I done it yeah."
As the caution is read, he replies: "It's my fault, yeah, yeah, I understand that, it's my fault."
Unprompted, he then says: "Anything you need me to admit I will. I'm not gonna deny f all. I'm not gonna resist arrest.
After the clip ends, Abbott continued by saying that the woman whose house he fled to didn't know anything about what had happened.
He then said "I'm guilty of everything you say" before he was told why he was being arrested.
The killer replied: "You don't need any evidence, I stabbed him to f."
Abbott, of Rose Street, Widnes, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and possessing an offensive weapon in public, but denied murder.
During a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, he tried to claim the admissions he made on arrest were just to the act of killing Mr Thornton, which he accepted responsibility for.
The court heard he was an estimated three times over the drink drive limit at the time of the killing, having started the day by drinking more 8.2% cider, with cocaine still in his system.
The dad-of-two told jurors he was a paranoid "madman" who "lost the plot" after being sexually abused by a "gangster" as a teenager.
The ex-cocaine addict said he used to think he was Jesus and the attack was "a cry for help" and the culmination of "20 years of hell".
However, even his own psychiatric expert agreed he was not psychotic at the time and had no defence of "diminished responsibility".
David McLachlan, QC, prosecuting, said he was "a master manipulator" who was "simply trying his best to get away with murder."
In his closing speech, he reminded the jury of when Abbott said "I stabbed him to f***" and asked if it could it be "any clearer".
He later added: "We respectfully submit it's murder pure and simple. He knows full well it is. He admitted it at the scene."
Jurors unanimously found Abbott guilty of murder after less than two hours of deliberation, following the harrowing nine-day trial.
He will be sentenced on Friday.
