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| Two brothers have been jailed for a minimum of 35 years for murdering a 65-year-old restaurant owner after she refused to hand over her life savings. | Two brothers have been jailed for a minimum of 35 years for murdering a 65-year-old restaurant owner after she refused to hand over her life savings. |
| Dean Atkins, 26, and Michael Atkins, 25, beat Kam Chung during a burglary in Cowley, west London, in November 2006. | |
| The pair, from Uxbridge, west London, kicked and punched Ms Chung to death. | |
| They were also found guilty at the Old Bailey of two counts of aggravated burglary, wounding with intent and possessing an imitation firearm. | They were also found guilty at the Old Bailey of two counts of aggravated burglary, wounding with intent and possessing an imitation firearm. |
| Thomas Carty, 21, took his own life last February while awaiting trial in connection with Ms Chung's death. | |
| The brothers killed mother-of-two Ms Chung, who lived alone, on 6 November 2006. | |
| Kam Chung was killed for refusing to give in to her attackers' demands | |
| A post-mortem test found that she had died of multiple injuries from stamps and kicks to the face and chest. | |
| Later that night the brothers broke into the west London house of construction firm owner Bernard Dwyer. | |
| Mr Dwyer, 51, was unarmed and naked when the two masked men attacked him in his bedroom in West Drayton. | |
| But Mr Dwyer, seeing a knife held to his teenage daughter Aisling's throat, decided to fight back, chasing the brothers from his home. | |
| Mr Dwyer later told the Old Bailey how he decided: "If I'm going to die tonight then I'd rather die like a man than a dog." |