GOOD SAMARITAN: TOUCHING STORY OF HOW A MAN BUTCHERED THE SON OF THE COUPLE THAT GAVE HIM SHELTER.

A couple who allowed a friend to sleep on their sofa woke up to discover he had savagely murdered a four-year-old boy, a court heard yesterday.

Psychopath Anwar Daniel Rosser, pictured above who the couple thought was a harmless neighbour, had asked to sleep on the sofa after turning up at their house after a night out.

n the early hours, the 33-year-old sneaked upstairs armed with four knives and stabbed Riley Turner  to death.

He then crept into another bedroom where the

boy’s mother and her partner were sleeping and curled up to sleep on the floor.

The next morning mother-of-three Sharon Smith, 26, was shocked to find Rosser curled up in a ball on the floor next to her, and ordered him to leave.

Moments later her partner, Guy Earwaker, noticed Riley’s light on and went to check his room – only to find it covered in blood and the boy semi-naked and dead on the bed with his throat cut.

Riley had been strangled, repeatedly stabbed and attacked in a sexual manner. Chillingly, Rosser had waited downstairs to hear the anguished screams. He escaped, but was arrested later by police.

Yesterday Rosser, a former soldier with a history of being violent when drunk, admitted murder at Bradford Crown Court. Experts agreed he was not mad but was a psychopath who could commit more ‘acts of sadistic homicide’.

Mr Justice Coulson branded him an ‘exceptionally dangerous man’ who had shown ‘appalling savagery’. He jailed Rosser for life and there were emotional scenes in the public gallery as the judged ordered he remain behind bars ‘for the rest of his natural life’.