An "extremely dangerous" psychopath has been jailed for life for the murder of a vicar and a retired teacher.
Stephen Farrow admitted killing Reverend John Suddards at his vicarage in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, between February 12 and 15 this year.
The 48-year-old, of no fixed address, admitted showing no mercy as the vicar cried "I'm dying", to which he replied "F****** die then, hurry up".
He had pleaded guilty to the clergyman's manslaughter, but denied it was murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Farrow also denied the murder of grandmother Betty Yates at her home in Bewdley, Worcestershire, between January 1 and 5.
A jury made up of four women and eight men spent almost two days considering the evidence before returning a guilty verdict for both murders.
The court heard that Reverend Suddards, 58, was found in a pool of blood, carefully laid out in his hallway, with pornography, condoms and streamers on and around his body.
The jury were told these items were designed to "humiliate" the clergyman as Farrow had a grudge against the Church.
After the murder, Farrow spent the night at the vicarage, just metres from his victim, watching DVDs and drinking beer.
It was not disputed by the homeless drifter's defence team that he "passed the threshold of psychopathy".
His barrister, Peter Gower QC, argued a partial defence that although Farrow was not mentally ill at the time of the killing, he was suffering an "abnormality of the mind" which diminished his responsibility for his actions.
But prosecutor Michael Fitton QC told the jury "we do not accept his mental disorder diminishes his responsibility for what he did to entitle him to that defence".
Mr Fitton also rejected Farrow's denial of Mrs Yates' murder, saying: "Our case is that he was there and that he killed her and that he intended to kill her."
The widow's body was found two days after she was attacked, at the bottom of her stairs, with her head on her pillow and a knife still in her neck.
The 77-year-old had been stabbed four times in the head and beaten with an ornate walking stick.
A swab taken from the back of her left hand represented a "one-in-a-billion match" as a mixture of DNA belonging to her and Farrow.
The defendant admitted a separate charge of burgling a cottage in Thornbury, between December 21 last year and January 3 this year.
A note was also found inside the house he burgled, pinned to the kitchen table with knives, that read: "Be thankful you did not come back or I would have killed you, you Christian scum. I f*****g hate God."
Farrow was not in court to hear his sentence being handed down, opting instead, as he did throughout most of the trial, to stay at Long Lartin high security prison where he is being held.
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