Life sentence for the drunken plasterer

A drunken plasterer who punched and stabbed his elderly friend to death then claimed he had only ‘slapped him’ has been jailed for life. Dawid Wycik, 28, violently attacked his 67-year-old friend Czeslaw ‘Chester’ Swaitkowski in an apparent argument over where the plasterer could sleep on Friday 24 January this year. Wycik had turned the light off and was leaving his friend for dying of a stab wound to the abdomen when police arrived at 11:30. Fellow builder and friend…