A man who killed a popular amateur footballer with a single punch has been jailed for seven years.

Leon Beagan, 29, was convicted of culpable homicide after hitting Andrew Lees, 27, outside Renfrew Leisure Centre on 5 November 2023.

Lees, who was known to his friends as Panda, died in hospital after a fatal rupture of an artery in his neck caused bleeding around the brain.

Sentencing Beagan at the High Court in Glasgow, Judge Douglas Brown said the death was "a tragedy" which had left Lees' grieving mother "completely shattered".

The victim - described as a "big friendly giant with a heart of gold" - played for local team Glynhill Moorcroft AFC.

He had been at a game before going to Davidson's Bar with a friend.

The other man left around 23:30 but Lees stayed and ended up in the company of the killer's half-sister, Skye Beagan.

She and Lees were later in Renfrew town centre before they met Beagan in the car park of the sports centre, where CCTV footage captured the men appearing to confront one another.