Drug dealer admits killing vulnerable former chef who slept beside dogs

A drug dealer has admitted beating a vulnerable former chef to death after allegedly forcing him to sleep beside dogs.

The body of Dimitrios Tsavdaris, 55, was found in the foetal position inside a "cuckoo" flat in Hackney, north London, after weeks of violent attacks, the Old Bailey was previously told. He had been taken there from the home of Bamidele Fawehinmi in Wickford, Essex, where he allegedly slept on a mattress in a garage beside American pitbull cross-breed dogs.

The victim was a frail "vulnerable person.