The killers of hospital care worker Tarquin Turner have had their custodial sentences increased by nearly eight months each.

William Charlton, 21, and 17-year-old Carl Wood appeared at Leeds Crown Court for a ten-minute review hearing.

The pair were jailed for life last month after a jury at Bradford Crown Court convicted them of murdering 31-year-old Mr Turner, who was battered to death in the grounds of Undercliffe Cricket Club last October.

Mr Turner, of Eccleshill, was set upon as he walked to the club for a game of snooker.

He died after being hit at least three times with two wooden posts that had been ripped from a garden fence.

As he lay dying on the ground the attackers stole his mobile phone, wallet, £20 in cash, a neck chain and a packet of cigarettes.

Charlton and Wood, who both denied murder, were found guilty after a two-week trial.

Judge James Stewart QC said they had shown no remorse and had used "gratuitous and wholly unnecessary" levels of violence during the "merciless beating".

At the end of the trial, Judge Stewart ordered that Charlton, of Fosten Lane, Fagley, should serve a minimum of 15 years, less 462 days for his time in custody, before he could be considered for release.

He told Wood he would serve a minimum of 13 years, less 462 days.

But yesterday the judge adjusted those terms after the Home Office had pointed out that he should not have doubled the amount of time they had already spent in custody before taking it off their minimum sentences.

Judge Stewart said the minimum sentence Charlton would now serve would be 15 years, less 231 days and 13 years, less 232 days for Wood.