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Two brothers are being sentenced after being found guilty of killing a civil servant 42 years ago during a spree of gratuitous violence against gay men.
Michael Stewart, 57, and Anthony Stewart, 60, were just 15 and 18 when they set upon Anthony Littler as he walked home in East Finchley, north London, on May 1, 1984.
Mr Littler, 45, was hit twice over the head with a blunt weapon and was found mortally wounded half an hour later, still with his briefcase, £80 cash and credit cards.
Within minutes of the attack, Michael Stewart had anonymously called for an ambulance from a phone box, but a search for an injured man was called off after he hung up.
Half an hour later, Mr Littler was found by members of the public lying in a pool of blood in an alleyway having suffered a “catastrophic” brain injury.
By the spring of 1984 the Stewart siblings and their friends had made a “hobby” of targeting lone men who they believed to be gay, jurors were told.
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