Two men murdered a dad-of-one they mistakenly thought was a paedophile.

Mark Roberts and David Garland killed Michael Wheeler after they found news reports about a man – also called Michael Wheeler – who sexually abused two 13-year-old girls in 2003.

Prosecuting, David Elias, KC, said Mr Wheeler, 37, from Yeovil, Somerset, was not the same person and had no convictions for child sexual offences.

He was also friends with both men but owed £100 to Roberts.

When Mr Wheeler disappeared, his mum was suffering from a terminal illness and passed away before she found out what happened to her son. Bristol Crown Court heard Mr Wheeler was attacked at Roberts’ flat in August last year, and suffered 11 skull and facial fractures.

Garland and Roberts then hid his body, and three weeks after Mr Wh

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