New York City: A black man accused of helping to torture and kill a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor after he refused to reveal the combination to his safe has been convicted of murder and robbery in Manhattan Supreme Court

A jury spent a little over a day deliberating over the fate of Aljulah Cutts, 30, before finding him guilty in the horrific death of Felix Brinkmann, who endured five years at Auschwitz and then went on to run Adam's Apple — the New York disco that inspired the Hustle. Cutts, 30, his brother Hasib and prostitute Angela Murray were accused of worming their way into Brinkmann's upper East Side apartment in August 2009, hoping to take the contents of his strong box. Cutts then helped bind Brinkmann's hands with a bedsheet, which he also tightened around the old man's throat when Brinkmann refused to cough up the numbers for the safe. He beat Brinkmann repeatedly, breaking his eye socket bone and four ribs, and when he still wouldn't talk, Cutts choked him to death. Cops traced Murray, whose trial is coming up, back to her Bronx home though her cell phone records and found Brinkmann's safe busted open and his tax records strewn on the floor. The robbery crew never found Brinkmann's other safe, which held $3,000. During the trial, Cutts took the stand in his own defense, but proved to be an unconvincing witness, according to one juror.