A bitter tenant murdered his elderly landlady in a drunken rage after she ordered him to move out of her home.

Jason Thomas King, 53, will spend the next 20 years behind bars after a jury took four hours to convict him of murdering of Susan Walker on the Gold Coast.

King was drunk when he turned his rage on the 74-year-old mother of five in March 2022, attacking her in a sudden and violent rampage, inflicting blow after blow on the helpless pensioner.

A postmortem determined she had 54 distinct injuries including a broken hyoid bone, a broken voice box and broken ribs.

The trauma was so severe it battered her brain against her skull and left her home splattered with blood.

Slumped on the floor with blood pooling under her body, King wrapped an extension cord around Ms Walker's neck an

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