Two teenage women who kicked a Irishman to death have been jailed for life in Britain.
Maxine Breakspear (19) and Rochelle Etherington (18) were found guilty at London's Old Bailey in December of the murder of Mr James Dalrymple (42).
The girls said Mr Dalrymple had rubbed his hand up one of the defendant's legs and asked for sex at a party at his home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
Judge Peter Beaumont said his alleged advances did not mitigate their actions and that both must serve at least 13 years of their sentence before being eligible for parole.
"However irritating his behaviour was or offensive his language, the fact is he died an unlawful death in his own home," said Judge Beaumont.
The court heard in evidence that the two women who were 17 and 18 at the time, two younger girls and older women were at a small party at Mr Dalrymple's flat in the lead-up to the incident. The victim allegedly attacked the older woman and the others jumped to her defence.
The prosecution claimed that when the affray died down, Breakspear and Etherington continued attacking Mr Dalrymple and were seen to smash a video recorder on his head and then left. But as Mr Dalrymple lay suffering brain damage, his attackers returned to the flat to steal his wallet and mobile phone.
The painter and decorator lay dying overnight, and his body was found the following day. He had 50 injuries to his face, neck and body. He had a print of a trainer shoe on his face which had also been cut with a screwdriver.
Breakspear and Etherington blamed each other for the attack in court.
Mr Dalrymple , who had separated from his wife, began drinking heavily in recent years, the court was told. His father, Jerry, was one of four Catholic workmen shot dead by the loyalist UFF in Castlerock, Co Derry, in 1993.
Outside court, Mr Dalrymple's family said Breakspear and Etherington had tried to blacken Mr Dalrymple's name to hide their guilt.
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