'Evil vultures' get life for sex-killing of boy

Two men described as 'evil vultures' have been jailed for life in the worst case of paedophilia in Britain for years, after a police chase that led to an arrest in the Philippines.

The judge recommended that Timothy Morss, 33, and his lover Brett Tyler, 30, who abducted nine-year-old Daniel Hanley from a London street, sexually abused and then strangled him, should never be released.

The two men videotaped their abuse of the boy before driving to Bristol, killing him and burying him in a shallow grave. Such was the abuse that the jury frequently broke down and the trial had to be halted temporarily as the men's video confessions were played to the court.

Mr Justice Curtis described the men as 'evil vultures - inhumane and callous'. Ordering them detained for life, he said: 'No one in the future can be under any illusion over what a terrible danger you are with your distorted and evil minds.' After the killing Tyler fled to the Philippines, where he lived with another paedophile friend in Olongapo City, near Subic Bay, where he had sex with more young boys.

Tyler had a good reputation with local people. He paid for some of their children to go to school while abusing them at his home.

British diplomats at the Manila Embassy used an Australian policeman attached to his country's embassy, and two Filipino agents, to stalk Tyler with the help of a Catholic priest involved in work against paedophiles.