Two brothers have been jailed for life for murdering a convicted sex offender.
Luke and Matthew Roe beat Henry Thwaites, 85, to death before dumping his body by a roadside in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, last July.
Nottingham Crown Court heard in the days before the attack, the defendants had been told Mr Thwaites had sexually abused someone they knew.
Luke and Matthew were given minimum terms of 25 years and 24 years respectively.
The brothers were convicted of murdering Mr Thwaites at
an earlier hearing.
On Monday, the court heard Luke, 34, and Matthew, 25, lured Mr Thwaites to his death and later boasted of the attack.
Mr Thwaites, from Kent, was a friend of the defendants' mother and had driven up to see her in July 2022.
'Drive himself to his own death'
The court heard Mr Thwaites had served two prison terms for sexual offences against boys under 16 and, while he was staying at their mother's home, the brothers had been informed he had abused someone they knew.
Mr Thwaites, who the court heard had recently inherited £34,000 and bought the defendant's mother a car, offered to help her buy a new house and said he would buy the brothers a new car.
The court heard that at 22:30 BST on 23 July, the Roe brothers told Mr Thwaites that there was a car they wanted to go to see and persuaded him to take a journey with them.
Sentencing, Judge Nirmal Shant KC said: "You tricked him into a journey to a remote location. You got him, in effect, to drive himself to his own death. The deceased did not know the area and, once you got him to an isolated place, you attacked him."
The court heard the brothers and Mr Thwaites drove to Lime Tree Avenue, where they assaulted him causing him 26 skull fractures.
His injuries showed he was attacked with a "saw-toothed" weapon, which has never been found.
The judge added: "The incident was over relatively quickly, but it was a particularly vicious and violent attack by two young men.
"The deceased was aged 85 and he was particularly vulnerable."
The judge said the brothers then stole Mr Thwaites's Fiat Punto and bank card and drove to nearby cash machines attempting to withdraw money.
"You spent the time after his death drinking and boasting about what you had done to him," she said.
"After the killing you drove away, leaving [Mr Thwaites] either dying or dead on the ground."
Matthew, of Franklin Road, Jacksdale, was also convicted of four counts of fraud, related to using Mr Thwaites bank card, and given a one-month concurrent prison term on each charge.
Luke, of Potter Street, Worksop, was found guilty of one count of fraud, relating to the bank card, and another of criminal damage to a car.
He received concurrent one-month jail terms for both offences.
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