Gran, 71, mistook home for her B&B - it cost her her life

A drunken bully who dragged a pensioner into the street by her ankles and refused to call an ambulance as she lay dying after mistaking his seaside home for a B&B has been found guilty of her murder.

David Redfern, 46, found 71-year-old Margaret Barnes in his bed last July after she had entered the wrong building. A court heard how he dragged her outside by her ankles, before deliberately and forcefully kicking or stamping on her, leaving her with 'catastrophic' injuries akin to being in a car crash.

A jury at Caernarfon Crown Court took 14 hours and 30 minutes to convict him of murder. Redfern denied both murder and manslaughter, reports North Wales Live.

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The trial had heard Redfern was understandably surprised that intoxicated Mrs Barnes mistook his home for her B&B but acted out of all proportion in dragging her outside by her ankles. He claimed he then intervened between his fiancée and Mrs Barnes - who accused fiancée Nicky Learoyd-Lewis of stealing her handbag - by making a "footballer's sideways block" but tripped and fell onto and over her.

In fact, the prosecution claimed IT worker Redfern, who is six feet one inch tall and weighed 21 stone, had deliberately and forcefully kicked or stamped on Mrs Barnes on Marine Parade, Barmouth, in an “unjustified and gratuitous” attack. Mrs Barnes, who was "frail" and weighed seven and a half stone, had been visiting friends in Barmouth last July 11.

Home Office pathologist Dr Brian Rodgers found she had suffered blunt force trauma. She had a neck and rib fractures and a ruptured liver, triggering a bleed of a litre of fresh blood. The "deep tearing" of her liver wasn't survivable, he said.

In his closing