Overview
- The sentence was imposed at Brighton Law Courts after a jury returned unanimous murder verdicts last month.
- Five psychiatrists were instructed during the case, yet the panel did not accept a diminished-responsibility defence.
- Evidence showed he attacked Chloe Bashford with a hammer and stabbed her eight times, then stabbed and strangled Josh Bashford with a belt.
- The killings followed a dispute over repayments on about £1,500 he said he was owed for a car and home improvements.
- After the attacks he collected the couple’s four children, took them to Costa Coffee and McDonald’s, drove them to their grandmother in Brighton, and then surrendered to police saying, “I’ve killed two people.”