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Aaron Barley jailed for life for Stourbridge stabbings | |
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A homeless man who "destroyed a family" by stabbing to death a mother and son who had helped him has been jailed for life with a minimum of 30 years. | |
Aaron Barley admitted murdering Tracey Wilkinson and 13-year-old son Pierce on the first day of his trial on Tuesday. | |
Mrs Wilkinson's husband Peter was also stabbed six times in the attack at their home in Stourbridge in March. | |
Mrs Justice Carr told Barley, 24, he had "betrayed their trust in every way" and warned he might never be released. | |
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Barley murdered the pair after a year in which he was given food, friendship and shelter by Mrs Wilkinson, Birmingham Crown Court heard on Tuesday. | |
Details of Barley's 21 previous convictions were read out in court, including an assault on his former partner. | Details of Barley's 21 previous convictions were read out in court, including an assault on his former partner. |
Prosecutor Karim Khalil QC said Barley killed Mrs Wilkinson, 50, in her bed and her son in his room before then attacking her 47-year-old husband as he returned home from walking their dog. | Prosecutor Karim Khalil QC said Barley killed Mrs Wilkinson, 50, in her bed and her son in his room before then attacking her 47-year-old husband as he returned home from walking their dog. |
The couple's daughter Lydia, 19, was away at Bristol University at the time of the attack. | |
Passing sentence, High Court judge Mrs Justice Carr said Barley had carried out "a vicious and unprovoked attack" in the home where he had once been welcomed. | |
The judge told Barley: "You abused your knowledge of the family home, which you had only gained through the Wilkinsons' extraordinary kindness and generosity to you." | |
Barley, whose parents died when he was a child, was brought up by a foster carer, who had reported concerns about his behaviour to the police before the killings. | |
"You have shown no remorse - indeed only regret that Mr Wilkinson survived his injuries and at times satisfaction in what you did achieve." | |
Mr Khalil told the court Barley was a "compulsive liar and manipulator" who was also given a job, accommodation and a mobile phone after Mrs Wilkinson met him outside a supermarket and took him home. | |
The court heard how hours after his arrest for the killings, Barley told a police officer: "I've stabbed three people up - I ain't bothered about taking one of you with me." |