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201 convictions by the age of 40 is the worst record I have ever come across
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A strangler and his long-term friend have been jailed for life this morning for the murder of a "kind, gentle" man.
Curtis Turpin, 37, and Adam Craig Hudson, 41, both of whom grew up in York, had only met Leedsman Francis McNally for the first time in the hours leading up to his death.
Sentencing the pair, Judge Andrew Stubbs KC said the murderers had given a display of "senseless, sickening violence" when they killed him.
Members of Mr McNally's family described the two murderers as "violent, evil" men and said that what they did was "unforgiveable".
Between them, Turpin and Hudson repeatedly stamped, kicked and punched Mr McNally on the head and face and upper body leaving him with 29 wounds, Leeds Crown Court heard. Mr McNally was also strangled with a pair of pyjama bottoms during the brutal assault in Turpin's flat in Markham Crescent, off Haxby Road, in October 2021.
Hudson hit him with the plastic end of a vacuum cleaner pole, the court heard.
Turpin was also sentenced for causing actual bodily harm to a woman by strangling her and forcibly searching her because he wanted drugs and believed she had some on her. He will serve a minimum of 16 years and three months before he can apply for parole.
Hudson, of Rowntree Avenue, Clifton, must spent a minimum of 15 years six months behind bars.
If they are released, they will remain on prison licence for the rest of their lives.
Neither man gave any reaction as three members of Mr McNally's close family gave the court pen portraits of the dead man and what his loss meant to them.
Mr McNally's sister Alexandra described them as "violent and evil" men and said what they had done to her brother was "unforgiveable".
Judge Stubbs said Mr McNally had been "particularly vulnerable" because of the amount of alcohol he had drunken, something which the murderer knew.
He was also "completely defenceless" during the onslaught of blows by a vacuum cleaner pole, feet and hands and when the pyjama bottoms were put round his neck.
At some point, the pair had intended to kill him.
"I am sure he couldn't and didn't react, he couldn't and didn't defend himself or even move," the judge said.
Neither gave any reaction when the sentence was passed.
The court heard both had long records for violence and other offences. Turpin had 52 previous convictions, including those for violence involving the neck, and Hudson had 201 convictions, including for causing the death of a pensioner by dangerous riding of a stolen motorbike.
They had lived a life dominated by alcohol, drugs and violence, said Judge Stubbs.
'Evil' pair jailed for life for 'senseless, sickening' York murder
A strangler and his long-term friend have been jailed for life this morning for the murder of a York man.
A strangler and his long-term friend have been jailed for life this morning for the murder of a "kind, gentle" man.
Curtis Turpin, 37, and Adam Craig Hudson, 41, both of whom grew up in York, had only met Leedsman Francis McNally for the first time in the hours leading up to his death.
Sentencing the pair, Judge Andrew Stubbs KC said the murderers had given a display of "senseless, sickening violence" when they killed him.
Members of Mr McNally's family described the two murderers as "violent, evil" men and said that what they did was "unforgiveable".
Between them, Turpin and Hudson repeatedly stamped, kicked and punched Mr McNally on the head and face and upper body leaving him with 29 wounds, Leeds Crown Court heard. Mr McNally was also strangled with a pair of pyjama bottoms during the brutal assault in Turpin's flat in Markham Crescent, off Haxby Road, in October 2021.
Hudson hit him with the plastic end of a vacuum cleaner pole, the court heard.
Turpin was also sentenced for causing actual bodily harm to a woman by strangling her and forcibly searching her because he wanted drugs and believed she had some on her. He will serve a minimum of 16 years and three months before he can apply for parole.
Hudson, of Rowntree Avenue, Clifton, must spent a minimum of 15 years six months behind bars.
If they are released, they will remain on prison licence for the rest of their lives.
Neither man gave any reaction as three members of Mr McNally's close family gave the court pen portraits of the dead man and what his loss meant to them.
Mr McNally's sister Alexandra described them as "violent and evil" men and said what they had done to her brother was "unforgiveable".
Judge Stubbs said Mr McNally had been "particularly vulnerable" because of the amount of alcohol he had drunken, something which the murderer knew.
He was also "completely defenceless" during the onslaught of blows by a vacuum cleaner pole, feet and hands and when the pyjama bottoms were put round his neck.
At some point, the pair had intended to kill him.
"I am sure he couldn't and didn't react, he couldn't and didn't defend himself or even move," the judge said.
Neither gave any reaction when the sentence was passed.
The court heard both had long records for violence and other offences. Turpin had 52 previous convictions, including those for violence involving the neck, and Hudson had 201 convictions, including for causing the death of a pensioner by dangerous riding of a stolen motorbike.
They had lived a life dominated by alcohol, drugs and violence, said Judge Stubbs.
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