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A British man was sentenced Tuesday to 26 years in prison for murder after he was caught on a body camera video stumbling back to the scene of the fatal stabbing and telling a police officer, “I know what happened.”

Marek Hecko, 26, from Chelmsford, Essex, has been found guilty of murder for knifing to death his romantic rival, 44-year-old Adrian Ellingford, who was in bed with the defendant’s ex-girlfriend.

Ellingford, a married father of two, was stabbed twice in the back at a home in Nelson Grove on July 25, 2022.

Just a few hours later, a body camera worn by a police officer guarding the crime scene recorded a visibly inebriated Hecko coming over while taking swigs from a half-empty bottle of brandy.

In the video, the officer asks Hecko to state his name, which he refuses to do.

“I know what happened,” he brags. “And you need me to figure it out, what happened.

“If you don’t have me, you don’t know what happened.”