The thug who killed New Addington father Mikey Brown in a trivial nightclub row has been jailed for life.

As Shaun Greenidge, 20, waited in the dock to be sentenced this morning, the court heard an emotional statement from Mikey's girlfriend Marcie Netting, who gave birth to his first child, baby boy Romarni, within weeks of his death.

Miss Netting said: “I would ask anyone carrying a knife - you may use it you may kill someone but do you have any idea how many more lives you will ruin doing it?”

Moments later, Greenidge was handed the life sentence - and told he would not be considered for release for four years.

Judge Brian Barker QC passed a sentence for public protection and ordered Greenidge serve a minimum of four years.

“This is yet another example of the dreadful consequences that flow from carrying a knife in a public place,” the judge said.

In another impact statement, Mikey's mother Claudette Brown said he would be alive today if there had been metal detectors at the club.

Before the sentence was passed, the court heard how Greenidge, 20, snapped when Mikey Brown told his girlfriend Shelley Penfold her dancing was outrageous and she should “control herself”, the Old Bailey heard this morning.

Mikey, 23, grabbed the couple and he and Greenidge ended up rolling around the dancefloor at The Works in Kingston.

Witnesses thought trainee office manager Greenidge was punching labourer Mr Brown but he stabbed him twice.

Bouncers pulled then pair apart and threw them out, not realising Mr Brown had been stabbed through the heart.

Mr Brown, whose family live in Aldrich Crescent, New Addington, died in the early hours after the fight on Saturday, June 21 last year.

Greenidge, of Hilary Avenue, Mitcham, southwest London, admitted manslaughter on the grounds he had pulled out the knife to defend himself “in the heat of the moment”.