An Airbnb guest was allegedly choked and beaten to death by the men he was sharing a house with in Melbourne’s south-east over $210 of unpaid rent.

Ramis Jonuzi, 36, died during a violent assault at the Brighton East house where he was living in October 2017.

Craig Jonathan Levy, 37, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter over Mr Jonuzi’s death by “compression of the neck and blunt-force trauma to the head”.

The Supreme Court heard Mr Jonuzi owed money for renting a room in the house where Mr Levy lived with two others.

On the day of the attack, Mr Levy had restrained Mr Jonuzi while another man allegedly attacked him inside the house, choking him and throwing him against the wall.

The court heard Craig Levy called police after Mr Jonuzi’s death. Photo: Facebook

Mr Levy took Mr Jonuzi outside, where the attack continued.

The court heard that during the assault the men used Mr Jonuzi’s mobile phone to access his bank balance.

“At this point the deceased was crying and apologising,” prosecutor Raymond Gibson told the court.

“At one time during the assault Levy dropped his elbow on the deceased’s chest.”

‘You have destroyed our family’

Mr Jonuzi’s sisters told the court their family has been “destroyed” by the crime.

“You chose not to do anything … you could have changed the outcome, but you didn’t,” Mr Jonuzi’s sister Naime Balla said.

“You have destroyed our family in every possible way.”

Another sister, Afradita Hamika, told Justice Andrew Tinney that not being able to hear her brother’s voice was “unbearable”.

“I’ll never hear about his weekend. I’ll never hear his laugh,” she said.

“I’m not the wife and mother I once was.”

Mr Jonuzi’s partner Andrew Ross told the court, “He never deserved to die like this”.

The Brighton East house where Ramis Jonuzi was found dead. Photo: ABC

‘His conscience will never be clear’

The court heard Mr Levy was a trained chef with a significant cannabis dependency and he spent about $250 a week on the drug.

The court heard it was Mr Levy who called the police after the fatal attack.

“It was senseless offending and it’s something Mr Levy will forever carry with him,” defence lawyer Megan Tittensor said.

“He knows his conscience will never be clear.”

Mr Levy will be sentenced at a later date.

-ABC