A thug who was locked up for a minimum of 21 years for murdering a waiter has died in prison.

Aleksandras Zuravliovas was one of three men jailed for life for the sickening attack on Joele Leotta in which they behaved "like a pack of animals" in Maidstone.

Mr Leotta, 20, died after suffering 100 injuries during a brutal late-night attack on the evening of Sunday, October 20, 2013.

He had only arrived in the UK six days before from his home in the Lecco province of Italy with childhood friend Alex Galbiati.

The judge said he was killed after Zuravliovas and two accomplices broken into their room suspecting the pair of making a complaint about noise in the rooms above where they lived.

He was jailed at Maidstone Crown Court in July 2014.

A pre-inquest review was opened at Archbishop's Palace in Maidstone yesterday, outlining that Zuravliovas had died, aged 30, on June 3 last year in prison on Sheppey.

The circumstances around his death are not yet known.