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“I’ll be back.”

Those were the words accused murderer Ayubullo Mohammad-Daud uttered to Steven Doyle after Doyle beat him up and stole his watch in a downtown Toronto street fight, Crown attorney Lindsay Kromm said in her jury opening Monday.

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“In less than an hour, the accused had come back — this time driving a van he’d just stolen — and although there were other people on George St. that afternoon, it was only when the accused reached Doyle that he swerved on to the sidewalk, striking Doyle and leaving him dead as he drove away,” said Kromm.

Kroom and co-counsel Karen Simone are alleging Mohammad-Daud, 23, exacted his revenge against the 27-year-old Doyle on Aug. 15, 2016.

Mohammad-Daud, 23, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

In admissions of fact read in court on Monday, the accused man conceded he stole the vehicle and was driving it when Doyle was run over on the same street where the fight happened, court heard Monday.