A police cordon on Napier Close last July
A MAN who stabbed his friend in the heart with a machete has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Paul Michael Largan, 35, had been due to face a murder trial over the death of Jason Paul Gregory on July 2 last year.
At Liverpool Crown Court Largan, formerly of Birchfield Street, Thatto Heath, denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Mr Gregory, who was 46, died from a single stab wound with a machete to the chest which penetrated his heart damaging the left ventricle.
Largan was remanded into custody and will appear for sentencing on Wednesday this week (May 16).
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