Three brothers smoked legal highs before killing vulnerable woman with wrestling moves
Scott, 23, Adam, 20, and Joshua Knight, 19, murdered kindly Delyth Andrews after she took their homeless family in
THREE brothers have been jailed after murdering a vulnerable disabled woman using wrestling moves after taking legal highs.
Sick bullies Scott, 23, Adam, 20, and Joshua Knight, 19, killed kind-hearted Delyth Andrews after she took their homeless family in.
The tiny 4ft 11in 54-year-old died from a host of injuries after up to seven hours of prolonged “slow torture”.
The trio performed wrestling moves such as “rainbow flips”, “T-bones” and “FUs” on frail Delyth, leaving her with a broken back, pelvis and ribs.
The court was told the brothers – who had all taken mind-bending drug Spice – followed her around the house from 8pm or 9pm through to 3am, jumping on top of her from the sofa and flipping her onto the bed.
Bi-polar Delyth's sister Sian Brown wept in court as the verdicts were read out, with the murderers sentenced to a minimum term of 23 years.
Judge Adele Williams said: “You treated Delyth Andrews with the utmost cruelty and callousness and terrorised her – what you did was slow torture over many hours.
“Your mother must bear responsibility in a moral sense, if not a legal one, for her own cruelty, her own dishonesty.
“She also failed to summon help for many hours on that night.”
The court also heard of a catalogue of abuse and bullying that preceded the vulnerable woman’s death – after she took in the brothers’ homeless mother.
Delyth – who weighed less than eight stone – offered Elaine Morely a place to live after meeting her through a friend.
Within weeks of moving in, Morely’s sons followed her, beginning a reign of terror in the kindly woman’s own home that lasted until they eventually killed her.
Canterbury Crown Court heard how a neighbour saw her standing in her living room as one of the brothers pulled down her trousers and said: “Look at the div now.”
Prosecutor Philip Bennetts QC said neighbours described Delyth as “too trusting”, and said loud music blared out of the property day and night after the family moved in.
And the court was told that Morely had even taken to answering the house phone by saying: “Elaine’s residence.”
It was only when the emergency services were called on the night of her death that Delyth broke her silence, saying: “They were jumping all over me.”
Police then learned how the brothers had been controlling her and stealing her belongings to buy Spice.
They had taken her handbag containing her Disability Living Allowance and spent the money, and even smashed up her living room as the house began to resemble a “drug den”.
Delyth was taken to hospital from the scene and the brothers were arrested.
But she eventually succumbed to her injuries and died around a month later.
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