A teenager has been locked up for four years for his role in a vicious attack on a pensioner who never recovered from his horrific injuries.
Reece Munro and his stepfather Garry launched a “brutal and unprovoked” assault on James Robson at his home in the fishing port of Buckie.
Their victim was 66 when he was attacked – but was 67 by the time he died in hospital almost a year later.
Garry Munro was convicted of the senior citizen’s murder after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The 33-year-old was jailed for life last month, and a judge ruled last month that he should serve at least 16 years.
The sentence will run concurrently with the nine-year term he was given in 2013 after he was convicted of attempting to murder Mr Robson.
Reece Munro – also known as Kray – was convicted of culpable homicide
And at the High Court in Livingston yesterday a judge ordered him to be detained for four years – the same term he was given after being convicted of attempting to murder Mr Robson at his initial trial.
Munro sen was found guilty of murdering Mr Robson by repeatedly kicking and stamping on his head and body and repeatedly punching him.
At the time of the attack, he had been freed under three bail orders.
Munro jun was convicted of killing Mr Robson by kicking and punching him on the body.
Mr Robson suffered a serious brain injury in the beating at his home in Buckie’s Blantyre Terrace on July 10, 2012.
He later contracted pneumonia and died in the town’s Seafield Hospital on June 15, 2013.
On the opening day of the two men’s murder trial at the High Court in Edinburgh in January, Kray’s mother Georgina said that Mr Robson, who was her neighbour, was “creepy”.
The 44-year-old told the jury that he showed her “very unwanted attention” when she was travelling on a bus with her former partner Munro.
Ms Kray said that Mr Robson sat close to the pair and that he “looked down” her top.
The court heard Munro tried to block Mr Robson’s view by putting his hand over Ms Kray’s chest.
She said she did not feel comfortable in the pensioner’s presence.
She added: “He was creepy. He was deaf. He had his television up a lot. He liked to drink a lot. It was just his manner. He made me feel uncomfortable.”
She said that on the evening of July 10, 2012, Munro left their home to go to Mr Robson’s property.
The court heard that somebody was heard shouting “don’t look at my wife” in the moments following Munro leaving the house.
Ms Kray said her son then went to see what was happening and that she heard a “lot of thumps” coming from Mr Robson’s flat.
She said Munro came back to her property and washed some blood off the training shoes he was wearing.
Ms Kray told the court that she went to Mr Robson’s house and found him on the ground injured.
She added: “Jim was flat on his back basically. It was not good at all.
“His head looked like it had been a watermelon that had been stamped on.
“There was blood everywhere. It was all over his face.”
Andy Shanks, procurator fiscal High Court for the North of Scotland said yesterday: “The accused carried out an unprovoked and violent attack on their neighbour in his own home.
“His death 11 months later was proven to be directly linked to that attack, and I am pleased that justice has now been served.”