A DRUG user has been jailed for 10 years after stabbing his neighbour following a row about their favourite drugs.
Christopher Cooley, aged 37, stabbed 22-year-old Benjamin Methven twice in the heart after the row about their differing habits in November 2003.
Cocaine user Cooley, of Gloucester Circus, Greenwich, disliked the victim's preference for sniffing butane gas.
He admitted to stabbing Mr Methven but said he did so in self-defence.
He was cleared of murder by a jury at the Old Bailey in April but was convicted of manslaughter on the basis of provocation on June 3.
Judge Christopher Moss QC, told Cooley: "Whether you went to the room with a knife or your victim was himself armed with the knife which killed him, you took that knife and stabbed him to death."
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