A man has been jailed for life after admitting he murdered his disabled neighbour who had been wrongly branded a paedophile.
Lee James, 24, killed Bijan Ebrahimi and set fire to his body in the Brislington area of Bristol in July.
Mr Justice Simon ordered that James must serve a minimum of 18 years in prison.
Bristol Crown Court heard Mr Ebrahimi, who was an Iranian national and in his 40s, died from head injuries.
Stephen Norley, 24, who had admitted assisting an offender, was given a four-year jail term.
Sentencing them, the judge described the murder as "deeply shocking".
He said it was "a vigilante crime" and "an act of murderous injustice", adding that claims that Mr Ebrahimi was a paedophile were "baseless".
The court was shown a video shot by Mr Ebrahimi of James holding a beer can and threatening him after he realised he was being filmed.
The court was told that during the fatal attack James repeatedly stamped on Mr Ebrahimi's head, shouting "have some of that".
Prosecutor Andrew Langdon QC said that after murdering Mr Ebrahimi and burning the body, James told his girlfriend: "We sorted him out. We took care of things."
James told police he had kicked Mr Ebrahimi "like a football... I had so much anger in me".
The court heard Mr Ebrahimi made several calls to police in the 48 hours before his murder, but "those calls were not responded to".
Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan issued an apology after the tragedy, saying: "Mr Ebrahimi was someone who deserved the protection of all of us and we are very sorry about what happened to him."
An Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation has led to four constables, a sergeant and an inspector being served with notices of gross misconduct in the wake of the attack.
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