Addict tortured and murdered widower, 79, by dousing him in white spirit and stabbing his eyelids

John Swannack (pictured) subjected pensioner Bill Howard to a 'sustained' attack' in which he suffered serious head injured and multipe stab wounds inside his home in Accrington in August.

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