A cold-hearted man who beat a confused 71-year-old woman to death after she mistook his home for a B&B faces a life sentence for her murder. David Redfern, 46, was found guilty of stamping and kicking Margaret Barnes after she entered his seaside home in Barmouth last July, which she believed was a B&B.
The IT worker refused to call an ambulance after attacking the frail pensioner and dragged her outside the huge townhouse by her ankles as she lay dying. Before Redfern was convicted, the court heard he "sounded like a raving lunatic" on the night Margaret died, the Mirror reports.
The heartless thug denied murder or manslaughter but was found guilty by a jury at Caernarfon Crown Court yesterday after 14 hours and 30 minutes. Jurors were told that Redfern, who is 21-stone and 6ft 1 inches tall, forcefully stamped on the seven and a half stone elderly woman in a "violent and cruel" assault.
