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10:28WAYNE ANKERS
He has been told to sit.
10:33WAYNE ANKERS
"When you committed these murders four children were present and another female was present, having been held captive at knifepoint. After killing Katie and Steven you went with your knife to make sure she didn’t raise the alarm. You spoke to her and later that morning at daybreak you raped her at knifepoint.
"This short summary doesn’t begin to convey the full horror of what took place. These were brutal stabbings…"
The judge said Katie’s injuries including disfigurements to her face and Steven’s included mutilation.
She said: “You positioned both bodies side by side in the living room…”
The judge said through all of this he kept a woman captive, who described him washing between killing, “laughing and joking” at what he’d done and scrolling through Katie’s social media accounts and listening to voicenotes between Katie and Steven.
10:35WAYNE ANKERS
She added she has heard powerful evidence from Katie’s family of their loss and said “it was shaken to the core of the circumstances of her death. Steven Harnett’s mother tells me how her world has come crashing down since his death and how she remains haunted by the knowledge of what happened to him. He was clearly a very loving son.
“You pleaded guilty to the murder of Katie Higton and Steven Harnett and the false imprisonment of the other woman - being referred to as woman B - at the property and her rape.”
Judge in court
The judge is now in court. Osborne has entered the dock and is flanked by four officers. He is wearing a light-grey tracksuit.He has been told to sit.
10:33WAYNE ANKERS
Laughing, joking sick murderer
The Honourable Mrs Justice Lambert said: “In the early hours of the morning of 15 May 2023 you stabbed to death your former partner at the house you used to share with her. You then used her phone to lure her friend Steven Harnett to the house and when he arrived you stabbed to death him also."When you committed these murders four children were present and another female was present, having been held captive at knifepoint. After killing Katie and Steven you went with your knife to make sure she didn’t raise the alarm. You spoke to her and later that morning at daybreak you raped her at knifepoint.
"This short summary doesn’t begin to convey the full horror of what took place. These were brutal stabbings…"
The judge said Katie’s injuries including disfigurements to her face and Steven’s included mutilation.
She said: “You positioned both bodies side by side in the living room…”
The judge said through all of this he kept a woman captive, who described him washing between killing, “laughing and joking” at what he’d done and scrolling through Katie’s social media accounts and listening to voicenotes between Katie and Steven.
10:35WAYNE ANKERS
Osborne 'proud of his actions'
The judge said he then showed a person the two bodies “as if you were proud of what you had done.”She added she has heard powerful evidence from Katie’s family of their loss and said “it was shaken to the core of the circumstances of her death. Steven Harnett’s mother tells me how her world has come crashing down since his death and how she remains haunted by the knowledge of what happened to him. He was clearly a very loving son.
“You pleaded guilty to the murder of Katie Higton and Steven Harnett and the false imprisonment of the other woman - being referred to as woman B - at the property and her rape.”
LIVE: Marcus Osborne facing life for sick and twisted double murder
Marcus Osborne pleaded guilty to murder after Katie and Steven killed at a Huddersfield property in May last year
www.examinerlive.co.uk