2023-05-11 09:33:52
A 30-year-old from Sheffield, England, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday after beating his neighbor to death for insulting him with a bag full of Pokemon cards and a plank of wood.
“It was a relentless and ruthless attack on one of your neighbors where you made the decision during the savage assault to kill him,” Judge Sarah Wright said in handing down her sentence, according to what was reported. reported “The Independent” on Thursday.
Last August, Andrew Hague, 31, allegedly attacked his neighbor, Simon Wilkinson, 50, after a verbal altercation in which the 50-year-old allegedly insulted him.
The accused would then have told him to “go out and come and fight like a man”, before brutally attacking him with a bag containing five metal boxes filled with collectible pokemon cards.
According to the prosecutor of the crown, Laura Marshall, the 30-year-old would have swung the bag several times like a “cricketer”, before grabbing a plank of wood to go after the victim already on the ground and bloody, “several occasions”.
“I cannot describe the pain and grief we are feeling, which is unbearable at times, caused by an attack of barbaric, brutal and diabolical violence,” the victim’s mother, Eileen, testified in a statement read to the court. court.
Andrew Hague, who suffers from a psychotic illness and a borderline personality disorder, stopped taking his medication shortly before the attack, according to what the defense reported in court.
Acknowledging the facts, the 30-year-old would have pleaded guilty and received a life prison sentence, without the possibility of release for 17 years, continued the British media, specifying that he would have been readmitted to the high security psychiatric hospital. of Rampton.
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