A man has admitted the manslaughter of a university worker after carrying out a series of knife attacks in Birmingham city centre.

Zephaniah McLeod also pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted murder and three charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Jacob Billington, a Sheffield Hallam University graduate intern and drummer, was fatally stabbed in the neck during the stabbing spree in the early hours of Sunday 6 September last year.

The 23-year-old’s family was present in court and over the video-link to hear the pleas of McLeod.

Mr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was among eight people stabbed during the attacks which happened across a period of 90 minutes and triggered a major emergency services response.

Among those injured was Mr Billington’s old school friend and bandmate Michael Callaghan.

McLeod, 28, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, had been in custody since being charged with committing the attacks.

The court head he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.

McLeod will be sentenced on September 27 and 28.

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