Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who played for Manchester United between 2016 and 2018, has announced his retirement from football aged 41.
20.05.2023 - 10:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A thug live-streamed himself during a 'sadistic' attack in which he battered his aunt's partner to death. Social media users begged Declan O'Donnell, 24, to stop as he repeatedly kicked, punched and stamped on Paul Cox, 63, during a two-hour rampage, the Mirror reports.
Police were called when he uploaded harrowing footage of the brutal attack at a flat in Nottingham onto Facebook and Instagram on February 10 last year. A court heard his followers pleaded with him to stop with one web user writing: "Stop, you are killing him."
Mr Cox was left with multiple fractures and internal bleeding despite O'Donnell's aunt, who was at the property at the time, also begging him to stop. Emergency crews arrived at the flat in Mansfield Road and took Mr Cox to Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, where he died nine days later.
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O'Donnell, of Nottingham, admitted manslaughter but pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was found guilty of murder following a 13-day trial at Nottingham Crown Court and yesterday was jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 23 years.
Judge James Sampson accepted he had been suffering from a mental disorder but it did not absolve him of the attack, which he described as 'brutal' and 'grotesque'. Judge Sampson said: "You punched him so hard that you damaged your own hand.
"With that punch, you knocked him out and the injury to your hand angered you even more. For the next almost two hours, you subjected this defenceless and semi-conscious man to a relentless and humiliating assault.
"Throughout the attack, you filmed yourself and him as he laid bloodied, beaten and distressed on the floor. Words do not
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who played for Manchester United between 2016 and 2018, has announced his retirement from football aged 41.
Manchester United have paid tribute to former forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic following his retirement from professional football.
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