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UK - Town man?s life sentence for brutal murder of sex offender

View the article here 01/28/2009 By Pete Bainbridge A MACCLESFIELD dad of three has been jailed for life for brutally murdering his 60-year-old flatmate after learning he was a convicted paedophile. Ex-butcher Lea Mason, 33, formerly of Turnock Street, will serve a minimum of 17 and a half years after launching a "violent and frenzied attack" on his victim. Mason used knives to stab, and a frying pan to bludgeon, _____ ? until they bent or broke ? then stamped on his head, which left "huge gaping holes" and soaked the killer?s trainers in blood, a judge heard. Mason and co-defendant Stephen Brian Kidd, 37, originally from Stoke, both pleaded guilty to murder at Preston Crown Court and were sentenced last Thursday (January 22). Mason was a thug well-known to police in Macclesfield through a string of violent offences stretching back 15 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).