The sister of a murdered busker who was killed by his housemate has paid tribute to the 'funny, quick-witted and highly intelligent' musician. Adrian Swift, 57, informed paramedics that Cheryl O'Callaghan had beaten him with a bat and pushed him down their stairs during an assault in their home in Liverpool.
He passed away the following day from his injuries after discharging himself from a hospital and told the taxi driver that took him home that he had been in the 'wrong place at the wrong time'. O'Callaghan's boyfriend, Steven Hardaker, and a fourth housemate, Adam Oldland, teamed up to tell a series of 'cowardly' lies to the emergency services in a desperate attempt to cover up the attack, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Among their web of lies, they claimed that Mr Swift had fallen down the stairs but the victim had already told the 999 operator in a call that he had been 'battered s***less'. All three were sentenced to jail at Liverpool Crown Court this week.
