Life for free-loader who murdered his flatmate

A free-loader has been jailed for 17 years after he killed his flatmate in a vodka-fuelled rampage. Nikolay Zhivkov, 45, ‘pulverised’ 60-year-old compatriot Krasimir Kartikov after he arrived home and began to have an argument about payment of rent. Jobless Zhivkov, who the victim had been housing for free, battered him to death after downing spirits. The father of one was found in a pool of his own blood by his landlord at 9pm on 13 January. When police arrived…