2 convicted of homophobic attack that killed German musician

BERLIN — A court in Berlin has convicted two men of killing a German pop musician in an apparent homophobic attack.

A regional court in the German capital on Tuesday found the Polish defendants guilty of manslaughter and serious sexual assault in the death of 47-year-old Jim Reeves.

The defendants claimed to have been drunk during the February 2016 attack in a Berlin hostel. Judges said they brutally beat Reeves and repeatedly impaled him with a chair leg.

Reeves died of multiple internal injuries.