Two men accused of beating a father-of one to death during a drink and drug fuelled row have been convicted of murder.

A jury at Teesside Crown Court found Lee Hogg and Terry Dalton guilty of fatally injuring Carlos Boyce in the early hours of November 11 last year.

The pair denied the charge and said the 36-year-old was killed when he started fighting with his friend Joseph Spencer.

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Jurors heard how Mr Boyce suffered multiple head and facial injuries and was left to die inside a flat on Homerton Road, Middlesbrough, following a row about smoking crack cocaine.

During the trial it emerged Mr Boyce was punched, kicked and stamped on, while Mr Spencer was knocked unconscious for several hours when he was battered about the head with a vodka bottle.

Hogg told jurors that he left the flat when Mr Boyce and Mr Spencer started fighting and was not there when the fatal injuries were inflicted.

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Dalton said that Mr Spencer and Mr Boyce started fighting before Hogg and himself tried to split them up.

Hogg, 38, of Lindisfarne Road, Ormesby, Middlesbrough, and 53-year-old Dalton, of Ellerbeck Way, Ormesby, both denied murder and causing grievous bodily harm.

They were both convicted of all charges and are due to be sentenced by Judge Howard Crowson tomorrow (Friday, May 12).