A murderer who stabbed his mum's elderly and "defenceless" former partner to death in his own home "for no discernable reason" has been told he will likely spend the rest of his days behind bars.
Mr Ives was previously in a relationship with Andrew Hall's mother Mary, who died around 2006. The relationship between Geoffrey Ives and Andrew Hall, described by prosecutors as a friendship, was "generally a good one" the trial heard. The prosecution said the motive for the killing was "not entirely clear" but that Hall's "pent-up anger and frustration meant it may be, that Geoffrey Ives didn't have to do too much wrong for this defendant to lose his dangerous temper."
But he walked there from the off-licence, arriving just before 11pm and "smashed his way" in through the conservatory door. Ms Proctor was out for the evening but her five children, the youngest being four-years-old, were inside. Police forced entry at 7:45pm and entered with paramedics where Mr Ives was found 'slumped' in front of his sofa. With detectives 'not armed with all the information' his death was initially ruled to be non-suspicious before a post-mortem two days later 'found the stab wounds to the neck that suggested this was a suspicious death."
"This was a sustained attack and I have no doubt you intended to kill Mr Ives. You left, with him either dying or dead, and went to an off-licence. And CCTV showed you acting as if nothing had happened.
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