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A man accused of murder told police "I know what I've done, I've f***ed up" after killing his girlfriend's brother by running him over with his car in Merseyside.

Martin O'Donovan, 47, died following the incident outside his sister's home on Stonyhurst Road in Woolton in April this year, which came during their mum's 70th birthday party.

Stephen Bates, of Herondale Road in Mossley Hill, went on trial at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday (October 21).

The 42-year-old had only met his victim earlier the same day, but is then said to have issued threats to kill him after a drunken punch-up before returning to the scene in his Ford Fiesta and "deliberately driving straight at him", the Liverpool Echo reports.

Patrick Benson KC told a jury of three men and nine women during the

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