Post by Sher on Jun 29, 2005 12:54:06 GMT -5
I normally don't put things in here from over seas, but when i saw this i just had to put it here. sickens me.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- A highly intelligent British student was jailed for life on Wednesday after he admitted bludgeoning his parents to death, then using their credit cards on a £30,000 ($54,000; €45,000) spending spree.
Brian Blackwell, 19, admitted two counts of manslaughter at Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England.
Retired accountant Sydney Blackwell, 72, and his wife Jacqueline, 61, an antiques dealer, were found dead at their home in the affluent village of Melling, northwest England, on September 5.
Both had been beaten with a claw hammer and stabbed repeatedly with a kitchen knife. They had been dead for several weeks.
"The circumstances in which you bludgeoned and stabbed to death first your father and then your mother are chilling," Justice Roger Royce told Blackwell.
"You then, with breathtaking callousness, left their bodies to rot while you enjoyed a luxurious holiday in America with your girlfriend."
Blackwell had been charged with murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility.
His lawyers said he was suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, an untreatable mental illness that causes sufferers to become obsessed with fantasies of unlimited power.
Prosecutors said Blackwell created a fantasy life, claiming he was a professional tennis player and hiring his girlfriend, Amal Saba, as his manager.
After killing his parents, he took Saba on vacation in the United States, running up a bill of around £30,000, including £2,200 on a three-night stay in the Presidential Suite of the Plaza Hotel in New York.
After the couple's return to Britain on August 12, Blackwell stayed with Saba's family, claiming he was locked out of his house and his parents were on vacation.
Soon afterwards, he heard that he had passed his final school exams with A grades in all subjects, earning a place to study medicine at Nottingham University.
In a statement read out in court by his lawyer, Stephen Riordan, Blackwell said he wished he could "turn back the hands of time" to when his parents were alive. "I miss them more than anything in the world," he said.
"The guilt will punish and haunt me for 24 hours a day for the rest of my life."
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- A highly intelligent British student was jailed for life on Wednesday after he admitted bludgeoning his parents to death, then using their credit cards on a £30,000 ($54,000; €45,000) spending spree.
Brian Blackwell, 19, admitted two counts of manslaughter at Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England.
Retired accountant Sydney Blackwell, 72, and his wife Jacqueline, 61, an antiques dealer, were found dead at their home in the affluent village of Melling, northwest England, on September 5.
Both had been beaten with a claw hammer and stabbed repeatedly with a kitchen knife. They had been dead for several weeks.
"The circumstances in which you bludgeoned and stabbed to death first your father and then your mother are chilling," Justice Roger Royce told Blackwell.
"You then, with breathtaking callousness, left their bodies to rot while you enjoyed a luxurious holiday in America with your girlfriend."
Blackwell had been charged with murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility.
His lawyers said he was suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, an untreatable mental illness that causes sufferers to become obsessed with fantasies of unlimited power.
Prosecutors said Blackwell created a fantasy life, claiming he was a professional tennis player and hiring his girlfriend, Amal Saba, as his manager.
After killing his parents, he took Saba on vacation in the United States, running up a bill of around £30,000, including £2,200 on a three-night stay in the Presidential Suite of the Plaza Hotel in New York.
After the couple's return to Britain on August 12, Blackwell stayed with Saba's family, claiming he was locked out of his house and his parents were on vacation.
Soon afterwards, he heard that he had passed his final school exams with A grades in all subjects, earning a place to study medicine at Nottingham University.
In a statement read out in court by his lawyer, Stephen Riordan, Blackwell said he wished he could "turn back the hands of time" to when his parents were alive. "I miss them more than anything in the world," he said.
"The guilt will punish and haunt me for 24 hours a day for the rest of my life."