40 year sold son kills parents for inheritance. Buys beer to celebrate and gets caught on CCTV.
A fraudster who shot his parents after a botched attempt to drown them in a staged car crash will be ‘pursued to death by the Furies’, a judge said yesterday.
CCTV images were released showing Stephen Seddon coolly buying beer hours after the killings, having returned to his home 150 miles away as part of an attempt to fabricate an alibi.
Mr Justice Hamblen told the callous killer he was guilty of what had been regarded as a ‘terrible and unnatural crime’ throughout human history.
‘One can only imagine the horror of your parents’ last moments in this life when they realised what a monster their own son, whom they loved, had become,’ he added. ‘Mercifully, their deaths were swift.’
However he opted not to impose a whole-life tariff on the ‘greedy’ 46-year-old, instead imposing a minimum term of 40 years which he said represented ‘a very faint light’ at the end of the tunnel.
The killer, who had enjoyed a luxury lifestyle before falling into debt, shouted: ‘I’m an innocent man!’ from the dock, only to be told: ‘Keep quiet!’ by the judge.
Seddon, a father of three from Seaham, County Durham, was convicted on Wednesday of murdering his parents Robert, 68, and Patricia, 65, along with two counts of attempted murder. He returned to Manchester Crown Court yesterday for sentence.
In the 1990s, Seddon set up a consultancy firm which raked in £5million by falsely promising small firms they could win European and British business grants.
He was jailed for fraud in 2000 and after his release took a job as a car salesman, while relying for financial assistance on his parents, who lived in Sale, Greater Manchester.
By last year he was unemployed and living in a modest £89,000 house paid for by his father. He had just £5 in the bank.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300410/Calmly-stocking-beer-monster-son-just-hours-executing-loving-parents.html
A fraudster who shot his parents after a botched attempt to drown them in a staged car crash will be ‘pursued to death by the Furies’, a judge said yesterday.
CCTV images were released showing Stephen Seddon coolly buying beer hours after the killings, having returned to his home 150 miles away as part of an attempt to fabricate an alibi.
Mr Justice Hamblen told the callous killer he was guilty of what had been regarded as a ‘terrible and unnatural crime’ throughout human history.
‘One can only imagine the horror of your parents’ last moments in this life when they realised what a monster their own son, whom they loved, had become,’ he added. ‘Mercifully, their deaths were swift.’
However he opted not to impose a whole-life tariff on the ‘greedy’ 46-year-old, instead imposing a minimum term of 40 years which he said represented ‘a very faint light’ at the end of the tunnel.
The killer, who had enjoyed a luxury lifestyle before falling into debt, shouted: ‘I’m an innocent man!’ from the dock, only to be told: ‘Keep quiet!’ by the judge.
Seddon, a father of three from Seaham, County Durham, was convicted on Wednesday of murdering his parents Robert, 68, and Patricia, 65, along with two counts of attempted murder. He returned to Manchester Crown Court yesterday for sentence.
In the 1990s, Seddon set up a consultancy firm which raked in £5million by falsely promising small firms they could win European and British business grants.
He was jailed for fraud in 2000 and after his release took a job as a car salesman, while relying for financial assistance on his parents, who lived in Sale, Greater Manchester.
By last year he was unemployed and living in a modest £89,000 house paid for by his father. He had just £5 in the bank.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300410/Calmly-stocking-beer-monster-son-just-hours-executing-loving-parents.html