Three thugs who doused a vulnerable man in petrol and left him to burn alive in a 'brutal, horrendous and violent' attack during a drugs turf war have been jailed for a total of almost 60 years.
Connah Jenkinson, 26, John O'Brien, 33, and Joseph McEwan, 20, carried out the horrific assault and killed Robert Beattie as part of an ongoing feud between gangs.
The 48-year-old drug dealer was at his flat in Waverley in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, when he received a knock on his front door at around 1am on September 25, 2019.
When he answered a group of men barged into his flat and doused him and his apartment in petrol before lighting him on fire and fleeing the scene.