Two women who tortured and kicked their 'quiet and shy' neighbour, 60, to death ... trends now
Two women tortured and kicked their 'quiet, shy' neighbour to death after falsely accusing him of being a paedophile.
Zoe Rider, 36, and Nicola Lethbridge, 45, attacked 'quiet' 60-year-old Stephen Koszyczarski, even filming some of the sadistic attack as they taunted him with sickening, unfounded abuse.
Jurors at Sheffield Crown Court were shown footage of the killers baselessly labelling him a 'dirty f***ing wrong 'un' who was 'abusing little girls' as they threatened to mutilate him with scissors.
As Mr Koszyczarski, who was reported to have a mild learning difficulty, pleaded for mercy, telling them 'I can't stop bleeding', one of his killers replied: 'Do you think I give a f***?'
The jury took just two hours and 35 minutes to find Rider and Lethbridge guilty of murder and an additional charge of robbery.
Stephen Koszyczarski, 60, was described as a 'quiet' man who kept to himself in Sheffield
It took a jury less than three hours to convict Zoe Rider (left) and Nicola Lethbridge (right) of robbing and murdering Mr Koszyczarski
They attacked their victim, who was a neighbour, at his home in Woodseats, Sheffield on August 9 last year.
He used a call line to beg for help, asking for an ambulance as he lay dying, and a recording of his final call was played to the court in which he could be heard asking for his property back.
His callous killers then left him critically injured and went to a nearby property. Mr Koszyczarski died in hospital on August 11.
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Rider and Lethbridge evaded justice for only a few days, and were charged with murder on August 15 following what South Yorkshire Police called 'old-fashioned police work' including door-to-door inquiries.
The pair's phones were seized and the horrific footage of their attack pored over by specialists, which showed them attacking him, falsely labelling him a pedophile and taunting: 'Not even denying it you f***ing c***.'
Forensic officers then discovered trace amounts of Mr Koszyczarski's blood on a pair of cream jogging bottoms worn by one of the attackers.
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