A senior detective called to the scene of Thomas Campbell's murder described what he saw as being 'like something from a horror film', as three convicted killers faced justice. Mr Campbell, 38, was subjected to two hours of 'unimaginable' pain as he was tortured to death in his own home.
Blood covered the walls of his smart new build home in Mossley, Tameside, which was turned into a house of horrors. Suffering 61 separate injuries, including being stabbed, punched, kicked and strangled, dad-of-two Mr Campbell then had boiling water poured on his buttocks.
He was discovered the following morning, naked apart from a pair of socks, lay in his hallway having died hours earlier. "I've been in the police for 20 years and I've never been to a scene like that ever before," Detective Sergeant Paul Davies of GMP told the Manchester Evening News.
