A South Kensington man has been jailed after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing his father.

45-year-old David West of Jermyn Street was sentenced to 13 and a half years imprisonment (on November 9) for stabbing his father David West, 70, twice.

Detective Inspector Simon Pickford of the Homicide and Major Crime Command said: "The relationship between father and son was a volatile one which resulted in a number of arguments about the victim's business and financial affairs.

"West claimed that he lost control due to his father's overbearing behaviour and that by killing him, he 'did a favour to a lot of people'.

"It is clear that he let himself into his father's flat whilst armed with a knife that he had selected from his kitchen.

"He stabbed his father, who had been drinking, twice in the upper body and neck, whilst he was lying in a vulnerable state at the foot of his stairs."

Events leading up to David West's arrest

Police were called shortly after 6pm on December 12, 2014, after reports that a man had been found dead in an Ormond Yard property.

Night club owner David West was pronounced dead at the scene by London Ambulance services and a post-mortem showed death by a single stab wound.

In the investigation launched by Met Police detectives, they discovered that father and son had spent the afternoon that day arguing about the family business.

David West sacked his son and told him to leave the flat above his Piccadilly restaurant Abracadabra, which he did just before 4pm.

An hour later, West Jnr returned to the bar area and confronted his father once more before breaking a mirror with a stool and storming out.

At 5.55pm, West went into the bar once more to get keys to his father's flat, with a knife in his possession.

He returned less than three minutes later as West Snr lay dead on the floor and said to a colleague "call the police, I've killed my dad" before he himself dialled 999.

West was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to a central London police station.

He was charged on 13 December 2014.