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A CALLOUS killer posted an internet RIP message about her victim – four days after she and her gang tortured him to death.

Evil Georgina Smith, 22, taunted Scott Blackwood’s family by pretending to be grief-stricken about his appalling murder.

In fact, she had urged on Allan Nicol and Thomas Moore to “finish him” as they savaged vulnerable Scott, who was left with injuries usually seen in car crash victims.

Smith’s twisted Facebook post said: “RIP Scott Blackwood. You have always been a good mate.”

But she had been bullying Scott for months and was with the gang when they dragged the 30-year-old half-dead from one flat to another in Saltcoats, Ayrshire.

It was there that the monsters finished him off.

Scott was battered, stabbed, stamped on, strangled and tied to a bath. His killers doused him in turps and tried to set him on fire.

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At the end of a five-week trial yesterday, Smith was found guilty of culpable homicide.

Nicol, 36, and Moore, 26, were convicted of murder and sentenced to serve at least 20 years each.

Smith – believed to have been a flatmate of Scott – will be sentenced next month.

After Scott was found dead at his flat on July 4 last year, Smith posted a shoddily written tribute online.

The apparently heartfelt message to her “good flatmate” was a bid to cover her tracks.

In it, she said: “Our meant to be mates who done this to you, I’ll make sure they get the jail fur this bud, love ya bud RIP.”

Poor Scott was relentlessly bullied by the mob before he was brutally set upon.

After the trial, judge Lord McEwan told the High Court in Glasgow: “This was a scandalous, disgraceful and horrific attack on a young man including what amounted to torture.”

Last night, Scott’s brother-in-law Dave Buckley posted his own message on the social networking website, welcoming the trio’s guilty verdicts.

He said: “You trio of scumbags. Allan Nicol and Thomas Moore, you will spend the next 20 years in jail.

“Georgina Smith, you will learn your fate on April 2. Telling people you are only going to get three years, well I don’t think so ya clown.

“You are found guilty of culpable homicide, you’re getting double figures ya smelly wee tramp.

“All I can say is enjoy your cell – it’s your new home.”

Witness Sean Sinclair, 21, told the court how he went to Nicol’s home on the night of the horror and discovered an already badly beaten Scott.

He said Moore stood over Scott armed with a metal pole covered in blood.

In a police interview, he said: “Tommy hit Scott with the bar-bell. Alan started laying into Scott on the side of the legs.

“Georgie was shouting, ‘Finish him, finish him’. Georgie just kept egging Tommy on.”

The killers eventually dragged a dying Scott a few doors down to his own home in the seaside town because Nicol was panicking about the blood in his home.

But the brutal assault continued as Smith whacked the victim while Nicol held him up.

Sinclair added in the interview: “Scott could not stand, so he could have already been dead.”

He also recalled Scott falling down stairs and Nicol claiming he deserved it.

Scott was then hauled back upstairs before being tied to a bath and his ankles bound together with a dog lead.

In the interview, Sinclair told police: “Georgie then got a bottle of turps and when she came back, she poured it all over him. She tried to set him on fire using a lighter – but I stopped her because it was not happening.”

The jury heard Moore again yelled that Scott “f****** deserved it” and that Smith “was agreeing”.

Moore claimed he would take the rap as Smith was pregnant – despite the fact she was not.

Scott suffered 72 separate injuries including scalds and chemical burns.

He had 13 stabs wounds and three broken ribs.

His eye socket and cheekbones were smashed and he was strangled.

Smith, during a police interview, claimed the incident began with Moore hitting Scott on the nose with a metal bar.

She said: “I could hear the sound of bone crunching and Allan was shouting at Scott, ‘Lick your blood …’

“Scott was shaking and crying.

“Tommy poured a bottle of turps over him and Allan stamped on his face. Part of his ear was bitten off.”

Scott was then dragged from Nicol’s home to his own home after Nicol said: “I don’t want him dying in here.”

She said the attack continued and Scott was left lying on his back. His killers went back to Nicol’s house and washed their bloodstained clothes in a bid to escape justice.

Pathologist Dr Julie McAdam said the head injuries found on Scott were usually encountered in car crash victims or people who had fallen from a great height.

Some of the horrific injuries were inflicted as he lay dead or dying.

Punches, stamps and kicks rained down on him and he was struck with a piece of wood, a metal bar and a knife.

Scott was then strangled with a tie, tied by the neck to a bath, bound by his ankles with a dog lead and then white spirit was poured over him and set on fire.

McAdam said: “Mr Blackwood was the victim of a sustained attack using blunt force and sharp instruments, so he would have attempted to defend himself.

“The injuries to his hands and arms are very much defensive injuries.”

Nicol, Moore and Smith showed no emotion as they were led away to the cells.