A DRUG addict brutally murdered a stranger who confronted him for hanging about the street, a court heard.

Daniel Devlin knifed Dominic Brown in Clydebank, last August.

Devlin had been freed early from jail having earlier flouted a supervision order for a previous blade crime.

The 47-year-old had been in the area looking to buy heroin.

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A judge heard Dominic, 32, and a friend had “pulled up” Devlin for loitering outside one of their houses and also for raking through bins.

The victim staggered to his own home after being struck, but never recovered.

Devlin, from Garthamlock, was today jailed for a minimum 17 years after he pled guilty to murder at the High Court in Glasgow.

Lord Mulholland told he had “callously” inflicted an injury that had “little chance of survival”.

The hearing was told Devlin had 68 previous convictions stretching back to when he was 16.

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He was freed on April 13, 2018 despite his most recent jail term not expiring until August 14 of that year.

The murder tragically occurred nine days before it was to end.

Joiner Dominic – a dad who had never been in trouble with the police – had been out with a friend at the town’s Cleddan's pub.

After the confrontation, raging Devlin returned to the flat of his wife and grabbed a knife.

The prosecutor said CCTV captured the victim “clutching his right-hand side”.

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He stumbled home and collapsed in his kitchen in front of his mum.

He was rushed to hospital, but was pronounced dead later that evening.