A man has been jailed for five years and two months after he stabbed a man to death in Shropshire.

Kai Sainz-Stafford, 24, had travelled to a woman's address in May this year to visit her for the first time.

But once he entered the property, the woman's ex-partner, Sam Siviter, arrived and an altercation ensued.

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Sainz-Stafford told police that he was forced to grab a knife he had hidden under a sofa and stab the 35-year-old three times as he was 'battering' him.

Tragically, Mr Siviter was pronounced dead at the scene on Lambourn Drive in Shrewsbury just before midnight on May 1 this year after he stumbled to a neighbouring house for help.

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Sainz-Stafford fled the scene and went on to hand himself in to

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