'Stop, you're killing him': Thug live-streamed himself battering man to death
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA thug live-streamed himself during a 'sadistic' attack in which he battered his aunt's partner to death. Social media users begged Declan O'Donnell, 24, to stop as he repeatedly kicked, punched and stamped on Paul Cox, 63, during a two-hour rampage, the Mirror reports.
Police were called when he uploaded harrowing footage of the brutal attack at a flat in Nottingham onto Facebook and Instagram on February 10 last year.
A court heard his followers pleaded with him to stop with one web user writing: "Stop, you are killing him." Mr Cox was left with multiple fractures and internal bleeding despite O'Donnell's aunt, who was at the property at the time, also begging him to stop.
Emergency crews arrived at the flat in Mansfield Road and took Mr Cox to Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, where he died nine days later. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community O'Donnell, of Nottingham, admitted manslaughter but pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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