Two drug addicts have been jailed for a total of 27 years for killing a Weymouth pensioner in his home.

As reported, Hannah Jayne Rebecca Day, 29, and Aaron Kirk Brown, 39, were found guilty of the manslaughter and attempted robbery of 75-year-old John Cornish following a trial.

They were handed lengthy jail sentences at Winchester Crown Court today.

Day was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter and was given an eight year sentence for attempted robbery, to run concurrently.

For offences of stealing from Mr Cornish and using his bank card without his permission on five separate occasions, which she had pleaded guilty to, she was given one month for each offence, to run concurrently.

Brown was jailed for 13-and-a-half years for manslaughter and eight years for attempted robbery, to run concurrently.

His daughter, Beverley Cornish, read out her victim personal statement to the court. She described her father as a "kind, gentle and thoughtful man," who had worked for 30 years as a lorry driver for Hampshire County Council.

She said: "As children, my brother and I would enjoy many family holidays in Dorset, particularly Weymouth. I was thrilled that they achieved their lifelong dream of moving to Weymouth."

Mr Cornish had run a bed and breakfast with his wife on The Esplanade until she died in 2002, before entering a relationship with another woman which ended a decade later.

Miss Cornish said she had envisioned moving to the holiday home for her own retirement, but that she could no longer see that as a possibility as returning to the town was now "painful" with her parents and grandparents buried there.

She described how her "worst fears" were realised when she went to inspect her father's home after his death and then her "frantic efforts" to find out what had happened with the coroner and the police. "No one should have to experience that," she added. "I'm sad that our children have lost their only surviving grandparent.

"His kind and generous nature was taken advantage of. He was targeted as he was vulnerable. He would always look for the best in people.

"I feel I'm no longer the happy, outgoing and adventurous person I was.

"The defendants have exacerbated our pain by entering not guilty pleas and showing no remorse for their actions."

Miss Cornish added that she had perhaps missed her father the most when he was not there to comfort her after a serious road accident caused the death of her partner of 25 years and led to her being airlifted to hospital.