A convicted killer once told by a judge he “lied, lied and lied again” is back behind bars after drunkenly complaining staff at a Gillingham shop owed him money.

Tommy Presley was just 19 when he stabbed a father-of-five to death at his Northfleet home in June 2012.

The teenager was subsequently cleared of murder by a jury at Maidstone Crown Court but found guilty of manslaughter, for which he was locked up for 11 years.

Now aged 30, he appeared at the same court on June 11 to be sentenced for offences of robbery and assault by beating.

Customers were reportedly in the shop in Canterbury Street when it was targeted by Presley, who had been drinking, at around 6.30pm on February 2 this year.

In a bizarre sequence of events, he went into the store to remonstrate with staff, claiming its ATM had not dispensed his cash.

The crook demanded his money back and, on being told it had nothing to do with them, he assaulted one shop worker before grabbing bottles of whiskey.

However, another member of staff came to his colleague’s aid, hitting Presley with a spanner and snatching back the alcohol.

He then left, only to return a few minutes later looking for his phone before bursting into a bout of shadow boxing.

Presley, of Coopers Road, Gravesend, was arrested later that evening and subsequently pleaded guilty to both offences, for which this week he was handed a seven-year extended prison sentence.

This consists of a jail term of four years, with an additional three years on any licence period once released.

At his trial in December 2012, jurors heard how Presley had fatally stabbed James ‘Jay’ Green at his home in Holly Court on June 21 that year.

The 29-year-old victim suffered three wounds, one of which was 15cm deep and penetrated his lung.

Presley claimed he had acted in self-defence and stabbed Mr Green with his own weapon after the blade was held to his (Presley’s) face and throat.

However, the only knife found by police bore no traces of DNA, blood, fibres or fingerprints.

It was also said by the prosecution to have been too wide to have inflicted the wounds.

Although Presley was cleared of murder after deliberations which lasted almost 17 hours, his account of acting in self-defence was rejected by the jury and they found him guilty of manslaughter by reason of loss of control.

Sentencing Presley at the conclusion of a four-week trial, the judge told the teen he had “no doubt” he had armed himself with a knife before going to Mr Green’s flat, and that “much work needed to be done” in terms of his rehabilitation.

Of his account given to the court of what happened that night, Judge Jeremy Carey added: “It is significant in assessing your dangerousness generally that you have done everything you can to avoid facing up to the consequences of what you did by lying, lying and lying again.”

It was said during the trial proceedings that Mr Green had been the victim of a hate campaign on The Hive estate where he lived and been branded a “grass.”

A second teenager from Gravesend, who was 17 at the time and therefore could not be named for legal reasons, was also cleared of Mr Green’s murder, as well as manslaughter.