Merciless killer's web of lies after he stabbed both parents to death

For three long weeks members of the Tipping family filled the public gallery in Preston Crown Court to hear to the harrowing details of how devoted husband and wife Anthony Tipping, 60, and Patricia Livesey, 56, died.

After killing his dad, he claimed he lost control and turned the knife of his frail, six-stone mum, in what felt to him to be ‘a dream-like frenzy’. His face remained expressionless as he told the jury how he ‘hacked’ his parents to death. But during the trial, experts picked apart Tipping’s pitiful web of lies. Home Office pathologist, Dr Jonathan Metcalfe, said injuries to Tipping’s hands, which were treated in hospital following his arrest, did not bear the hallmarks of ‘defensive injuries’.

Lee was Tony and Tricia's only child, and lived with them at the semi-detached home in Cann Bridge Street, Higher Walton, throughout his life. During his early years, Tricia worked as a childminder, looking after children in the village and Tipping’s cousin Gary. Family friend Andrew Sutcliffe said Lee was "a pain in the a***. He needed attention all the time". When Mr Sutcliffe went to watch football in the pub with Lee and Anthony Tipping, Lee would interrupt constantly. On holiday he would take his food far away so that no-one else could have any. "He was very selfish, very hard work," he said.

Tony worked at the foundry in Bamber Bridge until the company went into liquidation at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown. Around the same time, Tricia became seriously ill with pneumonia and was admitted to hospital, where she caught Covid and had to go on life support. Neighbour Tracey Wells said Tony had also told her about the locked door, saying they had woken to find their son standing over their bed. On November 19, Tipping ignored the lock and broke down the door, so he could get to the phone to call for a pizza, he said. When Tony received a call from his son to tell him about the damage he became agitated, despite an offer to pay for it.

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