All Maxwell Brangman wanted was to live to see his first grandson born but he was brutally murdered just weeks before that happened.

His daughter, Sereana Brangman, told The Royal Gazette: "It's not easy because I'd not seen him for a long time before he died. I was pregnant and I didn't have a chance to tell him I was expecting my third child and my first son.

"My daddy used to ask the dear Lord to let him hang on long enough to see a grandson, but I didn't have chance to tell him I was having one."

Ms Brangman, her father's only child, gave birth to baby Namazio Dill on December 8, 2008 less than three months after the murder.

"His middle name is Maxie and my nana calls him 'little Maxie'. He has the same colour hair as my daddy, and his disposition too," she said.

Mr. Brangman, 57, was stabbed and stoned to death along with his friend Frederick Gilbert, 53, as they slept in a shed in St. David's.

Yesterday, 19-year-old Darronte Dill was convicted of the crime, which he said he committed simply because he wanted to see what it was like to take a life.

Ms Brangman, 26, from Warwick, did this interview while the trial was ongoing, but it could not be printed for legal reasons until it finished.

"My daddy was friendly. He may have been homeless but I know whenever I went down to see him he would give me his last. If he had $2 on him, it was mine. He was happy. He didn't want much and he didn't need much," she said.

"Everybody loved my daddy. It doesn't sit well with me that someone would do something like this to him."

Her father and mother divorced when she was two. She used to live with her father in St. David's. However, when his apartment got shut down around 2002 or 2003, he went to live on the streets.

Mr. Brangman served for many years in the Regiment and was also well-known for his love of reading. Dill set his body on fire using his books as tinder. His burned corpse was discovered in his armchair after members of the public alerted the emergency services to a blaze in the shed.

"It's hard. I mean I don't want to sound like I'm crazy but I go down there a lot to 'visit' my daddy," said Ms Brangman, who also has daughters aged eight and six.

She attended every day of Dill's trial despite the pressures of being a single working mother. The evidence included two taped confessions where Dill described in gruesome detail how he and an accomplice stabbed and beat the victims.

"I can't even describe what it was like. Angry is what I can say," said Ms Brangman before pausing for a long time, lost for words.

"Hearing this is going to help me get some type of closure, but it's not easy hearing it."

Dill initially named his accomplice as his friend Roger Lightbourne Jr., 19. But he later clammed up and refused to help the Police find his fellow killer. Prosecutors told the jury from the outset they believe he did not act alone.

Asked if she believed others might have been involved too, Ms Brangman replied: "There's no 'might'. It was, and everybody knows that. It's just sad that they couldn't find enough evidence for everybody that's involved."

She added: "My view on the fact that they're not in front of the courts is there's not much the lawyers can do if there's not enough evidence to put them in court."

Ms Brangman said the loss of her father devastated her family and the wider community, and no court conviction can take that away.

"The St. David's community was in shock as my daddy had been living there for a few years. That type of stuff don't happen down St. David's I can't tell you if it's ever happened. Everybody knows Maxie didn't bother nobody," she said.

"I'm his only child and I work in a coffee shop. People are always coming in and giving me support. When this first happened my momma was in shock. She knows that my daddy wasn't troublesome.

"My eldest daughter is old enough to understand. When it first happened she was in shock. She cried and I had to take her out of school. This was her poppa.

"Whatever the verdict is it's never going to bring my daddy back, so I'm never going to be satisfied with anything. I'm never going to get my daddy back and justice will never be served."

Speaking after yesterday's verdict, Frederick Gilbert's sisters Charlene Gilbert and Sheral Grey also paid tribute to him. Mr. Gilbert was one of five children, and the youngest boy in the family. He had no children of his own. He worked as a groundsman and barman at the St. David's Cricket Club and, like Mr. Brangman, was well-known in that tight-knit community.

Charlene Gilbert said: "It's been a great loss because he was everything to everybody. He gave his heart. He used to play with the children his nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews and he looked out for their well-being.

"He was always around doing stuff for everybody. He never had financial wealth but he would give out of the goodness of his heart."

Sheral Grey said: "We can never come to terms with what happened but everybody has his picture. This Christmas I have three pictures of him on my Christmas tree and that's where he will remain."