A man who murdered his neighbour in an attack with a kitchen knife, broken table leg and wooden shelving has been jailed for life – and will never be considered for parole.
Brian Whitelock, 57, was found guilty last month at Swansea Crown Court of murdering Wendy Buckney, 71, on 23 August 2022.
The pensioner was found dead, bloodstained and naked, in the living room of her home in Clydach, near Swansea, after Whitelock’s attack.
Whitelock was previously jailed in 2001 – after battering Nicholas Morgan to death with an axe handle and setting fire to his body.
The subsequent blaze killed Whitelock’s own brother, Glen, who was asleep upstairs at the time.
Despite receiving a life sentence for murder and manslaughter, Whitelock was released from prison in 2018.
He then moved in opposite Ms Buckney, who employed him to do odd jobs, including gardening.
At this year’s trial, he had pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility but denied Ms Buckney’s murder.
When a jury found him guilty of murder last month, he said: “I hope you all suffer a brain injury.”
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