A thug who fled to a number of hotels after killing an ex-bodybuilder and boasted police would not catch him has been jailed for nine years.
Marius Bauba flouted eight different bail orders when he knifed to death Morgan Dunn, 34, at a house in Ayr on February 8 last year.
The 27-year-old tried to dodge arrest by dyeing his hair and checking into hotels in Dumfries, Gretna and Carlisle using false names.
Police eventually found the dad of one 11 days after the fatal attack.
Bauba initially faced a murder allegation when he appeared at the High Court in Glasgow.
But prosecutors accepted his guilty plea to the reduced charge of culpable homicide.
An earlier hearing was told the killing followed an argument between the two men. Dunn appeared to go for a knife on a worktop – but Bauba also went for the blade and stabbed Dunn twice in the chest.
Lord Matthews told Bauba he had to sentence him on the basis that Dunn went for the knife first.
