"Dina saw blood in the downstairs toilet rack. It was smeared on the walls and floor and her mother's three-band ring lay on the tiled floor. She then saw her mother lying on the floor in the living room. She started screaming hysterically."
He said the young woman "could not recognise her mother's face" because of the injuries, which were so severe that paramedics thought a weapon must have been used. The court heard that the injury that killed Rezk was likely to be the "hyper-extension" of the neck as her head was forced back by a blow, causing catastrophic damage to her brain stem.
Edwards, of Roehampton, south-west London, told police after his arrest that he had been drinking all day and had decided to commit a burglary to get some money. He told officers he trained as a boxer, but had not thought he had seriously hurt Rezk.
He said she saw him as he walked into the house and started screaming, so he hit her. She continued screaming and stumbled towards the downstairs toilet. He hit her again and she fell over just outside the toilet, but she was still trying to get up and still screaming, so he hit her again.
Detective chief inspector Phil Adams, who led the investigation, said after the verdict that a thumbprint on a front door key led them to Edwards.
A bunch of keys was recovered from the inside lock of Rezk's front door. The key had been bent and a print was recovered from it. It matched that of Edwards, a known burglar.
