The Botley ‘Hitman’ killer who stabbed his housemate to death in the kitchen of their shared home won’t be sentenced until next month.

In March, Eugen Coman, 35, was cleared of murdering Leonid Laboshin at their Pinnocks Way house share.

The Mini plant worker accepted causing the 31-year-old software engineer’s death, pleading guilty at the start of the trial to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

Judge Ian Pringle KC ordered further psychiatric reports and fixed the defendant’s sentencing for today (May 26).

The Oxford Mail now understands that Coman will not be sentenced until June 16.

During the trial, the court heard that Coman stabbed Mr Laboshin 27 times before he placed his victim’s body in a blanket then dragged him into the back garden.

A third housemate witnessed the start of the attack, saying that the stabber’s face had been without expression.

Coman drove off in his BMW, going first to a car park in Botley. A police helicopter tracked him driving to his brother’s home in Witney, where he was arrested.

On his arrest, he was dressed in a sharp suit, exactly like the ‘Agent 47’ lead character of the ‘Hitman’ video games with whom he was said to have developed an obsessive interest.

He made a series of bizarre comments to the police officers who arrested him, whispering the name of fictional Hollywood assassin John Wick and quoting from Spartan war film 300.

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Later, in the police station, he told detectives he believed Mr Laboshin was involved in a conspiracy to kill him and that he had acted in self-defence.

“If you're an amateur, you don't challenge a pro,” he said, and compared stabbing his housemate to the actions of a soldier in wartime.

When police analysed Coman's phone, they discovered pictures that seemed to show a strange interest in the Hitman video game and film franchise. He had also described himself as ‘Agent 47’, the titular character in the series.

Prosecutors suggested that there were two ‘competing motives’ for the killing: sexual jealousy of Mr Laboshin’s friendship with the third housemate or his ‘bizarre fantasy’ about being Agent 47.

Defence advocate Tana Adkin KC disagreed, telling the jury in her closing speech: “This case is not about sexual jealousy. It’s not about love. It had everything to do [with] and is about the delusional beliefs that Eugen Coman had.”