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Two abattoir workers who tricked their way into the home of a former workmate before torturing and mutilating him and a visitor have been found guilty of double murder.
Over three hours on the evening of September 11 last year, Ionut-Valentin Boboc, 22, and Jacob-Bebe Chers, 46, brutally stabbed and killed Denzil McKenzie, 56, and Fahad Hossain Pramanik, 27, at Mr McKenzie's home in Wood Street, Bristol.
The two victims were stabbed multiple times and laid out in a 'macabre display' in the living room, with some injuries resembling the way they would have 'butchered pigs' at their place of work.
The partially chopped up and exposed remains of the victims lay undiscovered in the 'house of horror' while the two men went on to dispose of evidence and tried to cover up their tracks.
Ionut-Valentin Boboc (left), 22, and Jacob-Bebe Chers (right), 46, were found guilty of the murders of Denzil McKenzie and Fahad Hossain Pramanik
Bristol Crown Court heard 22-year-old Boboc regularly borrowed money from victim Mr McKenzie, sometimes in return for sexual favours, and 'tricked' his way in on the night of the killings
Boboc and Chers were found guilty of murder by a jury today after a three-week trial and will be sentenced on December 21.
A jury heard that on the evening of September 11 last year, the two defendants, who are both Romanian nationals, visited the home of Mr McKenzie in Easton, Bristol.
Boboc had regularly borrowed money from Mr McKenzie sometimes in return for sexual favours, and the prosecution say he 'tricked' his way in on the night of the killings.
The second victim Mr Pramanik was simply in the 'wrong place at the wrong time', the jury heard.
While inside, prosecutor Kevin Dent KC said the defendants 'jointly' inflicted multiple stab wounds.
Mr McKenzie had 23 knife wounds - the most serious of these to his neck - while Mr Pramanik was stabbed at least three times in the back and abdomen.
There was evidence both also been tortured, Mr Dent told the jury.
He told the court: 'They left behind them a scene of horror, the dead and mutilated bodies of Denzil McKenzie and Fahad Pramanik were left in the sitting room.'
Mr Dent said the victims had been stabbed repeatedly while defending themselves from the attack.
Fahad Hossain Pramanik was unknown to the two defendants, and is said to have been 'in the wrong place at the wrong time'
And he said both bodies were 'further mutilated' after their deaths.
He added: 'Mr McKenzie's thigh had been cut open, and Mr Pramanik's body had been slashed across his stomach.
'The bodies had been arranged in a macabre display. One body was on the sofa and the other on the floor.'
The trial also heard the duo went to great lengths to cover up the killings.
This included clearing up the scene while they were also caught on CCTV trying to dump evidence.
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