A 26-year-old man who admitted killing a former soldier has had his sentencing adjourned at Oxford Crown Court today.

Chris Philp, of Halliday Hill, Northway, in Oxford, murdered father of two Stephen Pinker outside The Cornerhouse pub, in Cowley, with a six inch knife.

The court heard Pinker, 43, died almost instantly after Philp plunged the knife into him up to the handle and cut several arteries on March 25.

Judge Anthony King adjourned the case to a date which has yet to be decided after hearing prosecutors did not accept Philp's basis of plea.