A TEENAGER who took part in a drink-fuelled gang attack on a defenceless disabled man for sport is facing a life sentence after being convicted of murder.
Brent Martin was repeatedly punched, kicked, stamped on and head butted by a man and two youths who bet each other 5 they could knock him out.
William Hughes and two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, chased the vulnerable Mr Martin for a mile-and-a-half across two estates in Sunderland, subjecting him to a series of brutal assaults.
Finally he was left dying in a pool of blood next to a parked car in Baxter Road, Town End Farm.
Hughes, 21, of Washington Road, Sunderland and the 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to murder.
However, the 17-year-old, also from Sunderland, denied the charge but was convicted by a jury at Newcastle Crown Court after an 11-day trial.
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