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Dragged and bullied in public by his tormentors, this is murder victim Jimmy Prout in his final days.

The vulnerable dad-of-two was subjected to a relentless campaign of violence and torture which claimed his life in February 2016.

And CCTV cameras dotted around Percy Main, North Shields, Newcastle, captured those involved in his death shoving helpless Jimmy between the houses where he met his grisly end.

Former girlfriend Anne Corbett can be seen pushing reluctant Jimmy in the back as he is shuttled between the two houses of horror on the afternoon of February 5.

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Nearly half an hour later, the 45-year-old murder victim submissively follows her back along the same path.

At 10.27am the following day, Kay Rayworth grabs Jimmy’s forearm and drags him, with callous Corbett in tow.

The months of abuse and systemic fear then seem to overcome the victim, as CCTV appears to capture his collapse as he is shuttled once again by the murderous cult, Chronicle Live reports.

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Jimmy Prout thought the group were his friends but they turned on him and eventually dumped his lifeless body on wasteland just 100m from his home.

The gang subjected him to abuse - including making him eat his own testicle - which prosecutors said belonged in the 'dark ages'.

Zahid Zaman and Ann Corbett were yesterday jailed for life, with a minimum term of 33 years and 27 years respectively, for the brutal murder of the 45-year-old dad.

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Zaman’s former partners, Kay Rayworth and Myra Wood, were sentenced for causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult to 12 years and four months and nine years.

They were cleared of murder and manslaughter.

Speaking after the sentencing hearing, Jimmy’s heartbroken brother Edward, known as Eddy, described Zaman as “worse than evil” for the sickening abuse inflicted on the North Shields dad.

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Mr Prout said: “There are no words to describe him [Zaman]. Honestly, evil isn’t worse enough. Evil is too good for him, animal is too good for him.”

Mr Prout sat through more than six weeks of a trial at Newcastle Crown Court, listening to evidence of abuse that prosecutors said belonged in the “Dark Ages”.

“There is no word to describe it,” he said. “I would like them to suffer the way all the family have suffered.

“I would like to thank the judge and the jury and everybody involved in the case for the work they have done and the hours they have put in on behalf of the family.”

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When asked how the past year had been for Jimmy’s friends and family, Mr Prout added: “Horrendous, for all of us, not just myself, for all the family.”

Mr Prout said he was pleased with the sentences handed out to Zaman, Corbett, Rayworth and Wood and hoped his relatives could now relax and grieve properly.

Zaman, 43, Wood, 50, Rayworth, 56 and Corbett, 26, had previously pleaded guilty to doing acts intending to pervert the course of justice between February 5 and March 26.

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In sentencing, Mr Justice Dove said: “No reasonable person could learn what happened to Jimmy Prout in the months leading up to his death and not feel shocked and appalled that anyone could be treated with such vicious cruelty and inhumanity.

“What he suffered before he died is beyond imagining.

“Anyone who treated an animal in the way Jimmy was treated would rightly be regarded with disgust and contempt.”