Nottinghamshire man jailed for life for beating dad to death

A sentencing hearing held at Nottingham Crown Court heard the father and son watched football together on 30 November.

Malcolm – who was paralysed down his left side after a stroke years earlier – was found badly injured in the living room the following day.

“The scene was truly grotesque and macabre,” said Gordon Aspden KC, prosecuting.

Mr Aspden said the defendant was described as being “incoherent” and “under the influence of drink and/or drugs”, adding Peter told people at the scene the injured man was not his father.

“He appeared to be under the impression, that the man he had beaten to death was an intruder,” he said.

Emergency services arrived at the scene but Malcolm could not be revived, and he was pronounced dead.

A pathologist gave a cause of death as severe traumatic brain injury and blunt force facial injuries.

Mr Aspden said Malcolm “had taken a truly savage beating at the hands of this defendant, with fatal consequences”.