Two women broke into an elderly man’s house and brutally tortured him for FOUR hours as they drank his booze.

Megan Stafford and Amy Squires kicked, stabbed and tried to suffocate their terrified 78-year-old victim with a plastic bag during a nightmare ordeal.

Knocking him unconscious with a metal ornament, the pair fell into a booze-induced sleep. This allowed their victim to escape by crawling out of the house and raising the alarm.

Police who raced to the home found both women still fast asleep on the victim’s couch.

Appearing at Minshull Street Crown Court , Stafford, 28, and Squires, 27, both from Ashton-under-Lyne, were each handed 13-and-a-half year jail sentences after admitting attempted murder.

They had broken into the home of the 78-year-old man in the Hurst area of Ashton-under-Lyne in the early hours of October 30 last year.

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At about 4am the victim was woken by a noise in his living room.

He went into the room where he found Stafford, of Dean Street, and Squires, of Coronation Street, rifling through his belongings and drinking his alcohol.

After asking them what they were doing, the pair pushed him to the floor and began kicking him in the head and body.

Squires grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed him in the neck before Stafford went through his pockets stealing cash from his wallet and a watch from his wrist.

The pair then took it in turns to put a bag over his head to try and suffocate him.

The victim, who has impaired mobility, pleaded with them to call him an ambulance but they pulled the phone out of the socket.

After four hours of torturing him, he was then hit over the head with a statue and fell unconscious in a pool of blood.

When he eventually came round the women were asleep on the sofa after drinking the alcohol they'd stolen.

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The victim managed to struggle to his feet, and using a crutch and walking stick, was able to get outside where he flagged down a passer-by and made his way to another address in nearby Kings Road. He was taken to hospital with multiple serious injuries but has since made a full recovery.

Police arrived at the address and found Squires and Stafford still asleep on the sofa.

Detective Chief Inspector, Richard Ennis, from GMP’s Tameside borough, said: “How anyone could carry out such a horrific attack on a defenceless elderly man is incomprehensible. It is utterly sickening.

“They brutally tortured him despite him screaming and pleading for them to stop.

“They had every intention of killing him and even took enjoyment out of telling him they would do so. He truly believed he would die there lying on the floor.

“What Squires and Stafford did was abhorrent and this man has shown immense courage from the moment they carried out the attack, to the sentencing today.”