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A Wellington man has pleaded guilty to murdering a pensioner at his flat in Petone last year.
Eugene Baker, 42, stabbed Francis Tyson, 71, and then decapitated him on November 30.
According to a summary of facts, Baker stabbed Mr Tyson five times in the chest with such force that "the blows could be heard from a neighbouring room".
He was already dead when Baker decapitated him.
Both men were dealers of synthetic cannabis and lived near each other on Jackson Street.
In the days before the murder, they had arguments over drugs and tensions escalated when Baker was told he was being evicted from his Housing New Zealand home. Baker accused Mr Tyson of being an informant to Housing New Zealand.
Baker will be sentenced on June 28.
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