Two teenage girls have been found guilty of murdering a 39-year-old woman in her own home.
The pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were convicted of the murder of alcoholic Angela Wrightson by a jury at Leeds Crown Court.
Miss Wrightson was found dead in her blood-spattered living room in Hartlepool, County Durham, with more than 100 injuries.
Both girls were in tears after the verdicts and were led from the dock immediately.
The seven-week trial has heard that the girls, who were aged 13 and 14 at the time of the attack in December 2014, used a variety of weapons, including a coffee table and a computer printer, to carry out the "sustained and brutal" attack over a prolonged period.
The jury of eight women and four men deliberated for just over three hours before returning the guilty verdicts.
They had been told that shards of glass and small pieces of gravel or grit were strewn over and around Miss Wrightson's genitals and ash from burnt paper had been put into her ear.
The girls will be sentenced on Thursday.
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