Joined for some of the night by another man, the court heard the group continued drinking and took cocaine. Another resident on the street, the court was told, heard the defendant say on the phone: "I have just killed someone." and calling Mr Dean as his "best friend". In a statement read to the court Mr Dean's 12-year-old daughter said her heart had been "broken" by her father's death. In her victim impact statement, Mr Dean's girlfriend, Kayleigh Sheppard, told the court Griffiths "took away everything he could have been".

Source: Punch December 19, 2025 16:38 UTC