A 37-year-old man admitted on Wednesday to killing a businessman in a violent assault outside his home.
Lance Colston pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Jason Orwin during a hearing at Maidstone Crown Court, Kent.
Mr Orwin, a managing director of a financial recruiting firm, died after suffering a head injury and cardiac arrest in the attack in Bower Place, Maidstone, in July last year.
In a cruel twist of fate, the 55-year-old had been robbed just a few weeks earlier in an unrelated incident in which he suffered a fractured hip and had his custom-made, 18-carat, diamond-encrusted gold watch worth £10,000 stolen.