A Polish man who battered a pensioner to death on his doorstep while on bail for threatening to kill two women in their home has been jailed for at least 20 years.
Philip Fracezek, 22, attacked 79-year-old Franklin Agbotui at his home in Soprano Court in Plaistow, east London, on May 15 2024.
Mr Agbotui was savagely beaten after he asked Fracezek, then 20, to leave the block after he caught him sleeping in the corridor outside of his flat. The pensioner died five days later in Royal London Hospital.
Fracezek attacked the elderly father while on bail, after he broke into the
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