Two teenagers have been found guilty of murder after a vulnerable drug addict was brutally stabbed to death in his own home.
Leigh Smith, 48, was knifed seven times, before neighbours found him having bled to death in his flat in Eccles. Drug dealer Jacob Cookson, 18, and a 17-year-old boy were unanimously convicted of murder. READ MORE : 'Devious' drug addict who brutally murdered her mother 'in cold blood' then tried to cover up the killing must serve at least 17 years Another 17-year-old boy was found not guilty.
Prosecutors said the killing was fuelled by revenge, after Cookson had been attacked by another man in Mr Smith's house days earlier.
Cookson believed Mr Smith had set him up, they said. The pair face life sentences after being convicted following a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court.
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