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This grisly picture shows the sick selfie taken by a call girl - as a former history teacher lay murdered beneath her.

Kirsty Edmondson, 23, and 35-year old Christopher Sawyers used mobiles phones to take "trophy photos" and had sex with each other in Kenneth Chapman's bed whilst they lived with his corpse for up to a week.

The pair behaved like "vultures around a corpse" stealing the victim's TV and computer and raiding his bank account in a string of online frauds.

They even texting the victim's unwitting sister pretending to be 47-year old Scotsman Chapman asking if she could lend him £75.

Police were called in after concerns about the victim's welfare and found him dead at his flat in Eccles, Greater Manchester with tests showing he had been injected with a lethal dose of heroin.

It emerged Sawyers had realised there was "money to be made out of murder" after he got away with killing a former accountant with the same drug - 17 months before Chapman's death.

After the latest killing he had shown one of the selfie photos to his friends saying: "Look at this. I will show you a photo of a corpse." In another bragging outburst he declared: "I'm a serial killer now."

The selfie was issued with the consent of Chapman's family today as career criminal Sawyers was convicted of murder and manslaughter and jailed for life with a minimum recommendation he serve 33 years.

He admitted two thefts and seven fraud charges. Edmondson was jailed for three years after she admitted two charges of theft and nine of fraud. She wept as she was found not guilty of murder.

At Manchester Crown Court the judge Mr Justice Timothy Holroyde said: "A phrase from the trial springs to mind - the pair of you were like vultures around a corpse'.

"Within a very short time you were stripping Kenneth Chapman of what he owned, selling it for what you could get and reducing the flat which had been so kept and tidy to a scene of disorder and despoliation.

"Anyone who doubted the malign and destructive effects of the misuse of class A drugs should have sat and listened to the evidence in this trial.

"Those who have sat and listened have heard evidence that vividly showed the utter degradation wrought upon those who had become addicted to such drugs.

"It has been strikingly apparent throughout as indeed both defendants have frankly acknowledged, that their use of Class A controlled drugs had brought them to the state in which their wholly dominant and overriding concern was getting their next fix however they could.

"Kirsty Edmondson in two sentences in her evidence summed it up: 'drugs change your life and change your morals', and 'smackheads don't really have consciences'.

He told Sawyers: "You wanted to get your hands on everything Kenneth Chapman had, which you believed was substantial. When the opportunity arose, you took it quickly and ruthlessly."

Det Ch Inspector Sarah Jones from Greater Manchester Police said: "Christopher Sawyers deliberately injected Kenneth Chapman with a fatal dose of heroin for one reason and one reason only: greed.

"It is our belief that he killed him in order to financially benefit from his death so that together with Kirsty Edmondson, they could continue to buy heroin.

"There is little doubt in my mind that the grip heroin had on them caused them to continue to periodically live with the dead body of Kenneth Chapman for in excess of a week in order to steal from him without ever giving a thought to the appalling nature of their crimes."

Earlier the jury was told how Chapman - who was also a former soldier - had been a keen athlete and a member of a running club.

He taught A level and GCSE history at Rivington and Blackrod High School in Chorley, Lancashire.

But in 2007 he was disgraced when he went to prison for two and a half years for grooming a schoolgirl for sex in an internet chatroom.

He lost his teaching job and after his release met Edmondson when he became embroiled in the drugs scene and began associating with call girls for company.

He moved back to Berwick-upon-Tweed, Scotland after visiting his family over Christmas last year.

But tragedy struck on December 28 2013 after he met up with Edmondson and Sawyers and they went back to his flat whey they took drugs and when the victim fell unconscious he was administered with a lethal dose.

Mr Tony Cross QC prosecuting said: "Christopher Sawyers and Kirsty Edmondson treated Kenneth Chapman's home and property as their exclusive preserve.

"In the 15 days between the death of Mr Chapman and the discovery of his body these two defendants began to steal what they could from him - his TV, computer and from his bank account to purchase goods using a variety of different fraudulent methods.

"They even texting his sister pretending to be him to borrow money. These were callous and despicable actions. They began within hours of Kenneth Chapman's death and continued for days as the two defendants lived in the flat carrying on their lives whilst Mr Chapman lay dead.

"So twisted were their actions that they even took selfies of them enjoying themselves in the very same room as the cadaver. They took 'selfies' in the very room where he lay rotting. These photos are trophy photos - two people proud of their work.

"They had sex in his bed and filmed it. They stole and committed fraud. Attempts were made to order goods via Amazon, top up mobile phones and pay forged cheques into Sawyers' bank account.

The court heard Sawyer was also responsible for the death of former accountant Peter Clark, 60, who also drifted in the Manchester drugs scene.

He suffered a fatal collapse whilst he and Sawyers were taking heroin at a house in Ancoats, Manchester on July 5 2012.

He was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. Inquiries revealed he used Mr Clark's phone and stole cash from his wallet.