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Teenage Girls Jailed For Stomping Ulsterman To Death At His Flat

The grieving mother of a Rasharkin man stamped to death by two teenage girls has said she will never get over her son's death.

Maxine Breakspear (19), and Rochelle Etherington (18), face life in prison after being found guilty of the savage murder of 42-year-old Seamus Dalrymple.

They attacked him as he tried to throw out an older woman from his flat in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in January of this year.

Mr Dalrymple was kicked and punched and a video recorder smashed twice on to his head.

As he lay dying from brain damage, his attackers returned to the blood-spattered flat to steal his wallet and mobile phone, the Old Bailey was told.

The painter and decorator's body was found the next day. He had 50 injuries to his face, neck and body.

He had a print of a trainer shoe on his face, which was cut with a screwdriver.

Breakspear and Etherington, both of Walton-on-Thames, had tried to blame each other for the attack in January when they were arrested.

They denied murder but were found guilty by a jury.

The Recorder of London Judge Peter Beaumont remanded them in custody for six weeks for pre-sentence reports to help determine a minimum term.

He said: "There is only one sentence I can pass. I want to find out why this happened."

Mr Dalrymple, who had separated from his wife, began drinking heavily in recent years, the court was told.

His father Gerry was one of four Catholic workmen shot dead by the UFF in Castlerock in 1993.

Outside court Patricia Dalrymple said she could not understand how teenage girls could have carried out such a savage attack on her son.

She said: "I will never get over the way he died. It was evil."

Her son-in-law Tom Barry said the teenagers had lied about Mr Dalrymple to blacken his character.

Mr Barry said: "He was a thoroughly decent man.

"The vicious lies attempted to take away his good name and to avoid any blame in what they did. They have failed."