"Dean Mears dragged grandmother Catherine Flynn, 69, from her bed and stamped on her, breaking every bone in her face during the attack in October 2024.
Mrs Flynn’s daughter Natasha Flynn-Farrell said she watched helplessly after she received a doorbell camera alert of the drug dealer breaking into her mother’s home in the seaside town of Rhyl in Denbighshire.
Jailing him for life with a 27 year and 128 day minimum term, Judge Rhys Rowlands said Mears, 35, was responsible for a “savage, and quite ferocious and merciless attack”.
He said the recording captured on the doorbell camera “can only be described as horrific”.
What a unimaginably nightmarish end of the Catherine, and for her daughter to have witnessed.