Last moment gran, 71, was seen alive after mistaking home for her B&B

A man who was found guilty of murdering a pensioner and dragging her into the street by her ankles after she mistook his home for her hotel has been jailed for life.

Haunting CCTV footage showed the moment 71-year-old Margaret Barnes walked up to the entrance of the home of David Redfern, 46, with a suitcase in tow last July.

A court heard how Barnes had believed the five-bedroom seaside home on Marine Parade, Barmouth, was her hotel, which was situated only a few houses down the road.

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Bank IT worker Redfern, was said to be enraged when he found seven-and-a-half stone Mrs Barnes sitting in his bed drinking gin, her suitcase open, clothes strewn around with her false teeth on a side table, reports The Mirror.

Caernarfon Crown Court heard how Redfern, who is six feet one inch tall and weighed 21 stone, dragged her outside by her ankles whilst calling her a "scumbag" and a "thieving c***". He then deliberately and forcefully kicked or stamped on her, leaving her with 'catastrophic' injuries.

A neighbour said she heard the defendant shouting inside his home and "sounded like a raving lunatic". Redfern refused to call an ambulance as Mrs Barnes lay dying and suffering from injuries akin to a high-speed car crash.

Redfern denied both murder and manslaughter but a jury took 14 hours and 30 minutes to convict him of murder. Today judge Mr Justice Bourne sentenced him to life, with a minimum of 14 years.

The judge said: "You were astonished to find her in their bed, your first reaction was entirely appropriate but after that things went terribly wrong.

"You dragged her by the ankles downstairs and flung her wheeled-suitcase after her,