A KILLER who stabbed a dad to death after an earlier jibe about a T-shirt has been jailed for a minimum 15 years.

Callum Andrews knifed Terry Smith 11 times at a flat in Doonside Tower, Motherwell, on August 13 2019.

Jurors heard the force used was such that the handle for the weapon snapped.

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Terry - known as TJ - never survived. The 30 year-old's partner was pregnant at the time of the killing.

Andrews, 22, was on Friday handed a life sentence having earlier been convicted of murder at the High Court in Glasgow.

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Lady Stacey told him: "Terry Smith's partner has been left paralysed by grief.

"None of what happened makes any sense to the family who have been left behind.

"You have to live with the knowledge that what you did took another man's life."

Connor Doherty, 20, had been acquitted of murder following the trial.

He was instead guilty of the reduced charge of assaulting Terry to his injury by smashing a vase and a bottle over his head.

Lady Stacey ordered Doherty - who plans to join the army - to be of good behaviour. He will return to court in six months.

Doherty had previously been on remand in prison.

The trial heard how Lindsey Davidson - a friend of Terry - had been at the same party that night.

She recalled him "teasing" Doherty about what he was wearing.

Miss Davidson said: "It was just whatever was on his T-shirt. He was just winding him up - that was the way Terry was."

She said in evidence that Andrews got a knife from the kitchen and "just went for Terry".

Within 30 seconds, Terry was lying dead on the living room floor with the blade of the knife still embedded in him.

Terry already had a child at the time of his death. His partner Stacey Gilmour later gave birth to his baby son.

The court heard Andrews boasted about what he had done.

He had denied murder during the trial, but had admitted the reduced allegation of culpable homicide.

Andrews claimed he had been acting under provocation after his friend Doherty was apparently threatened by Terry.

The killer already had a violent record including assaulting his mother and a child.

His QC Tony Graham said what happened that night was "spontaneous" and a result of "poor thinking" on Andrews' part.