A man who stabbed his student boyfriend and left him to die had killed his family's pet bird just a few years prior.
Northumbria University student Jason Brockbanks, 24, had been dating Aaron Ray, 21, for three months before he was murdered after a night out in September last year.
CCTV showed the pair walking about back to Jason's flat on the outskirts of Newcastle city centre before Ray was seen kicking Jason in the leg.