Daniel Jack Kelsall has spent his first night behind bars as a guilty man and will return to court next month on child porn charges.
Kelsall was found guilty on Wednesday of indecently assaulting and murdering 31-year-old Morgan Huxley, who was stabbed more than 20 times in his Sydney flat on September 8, 2013.
The 22-year-old, it can now be revealed, is also facing two unrelated child pornography charges.
It was also revealed following the verdict on Wednesday that Kelsall had given police three versions of what happened on the morning Mr Huxley was killed.
In the first, which was given to police on September 24, 2013, he said he had only seen Mr Huxley at an ATM.
But days later, he called up the detectives saying, "I wasn't telling the entire truth".
In a conversation deemed inadmissible at trial, Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Dukes said Kelsall told him: "I started talking to (Mr Huxley) and he was like upset and depressed so I said to him, `can I cheer you up?'"
He said Mr Huxley fell asleep during a sex act, so Kelsall left his flat.
"When I was leaving there was a woman coming towards his unit and she saw me coming out.
"She saw me coming out and I think that's why he got murdered."
Kelsall told another version at his trial this week, saying he was having a sexual encounter with Mr Huxley when an intruder or intruders burst in and hit him over the head.
Terrified, he ran from the flat but said he couldn't tell how many intruders there were or their gender.
The jury also heard how in 2012 Kelsall told psychiatrist Matthew Boulton about having "intrusive thoughts" about stabbing "a random".
"He had no idea why he thought those kind of things and his going to jail depended on whether or not he wanted to get caught," Dr Boulton said.
Kelsall is due to return to the local court on the child pornography matters on April 7.
Kelsall will return for a sentence hearing for the murder charge on April 29.
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