15:57KEY EVENT
Jury retires to consider verdicts
Mr Justice Lavender has now finished his summing up of the evidence and the jury have just retired to consider their verdicts.
As soon as we hear anything from them, we will update you in this blog.
16:51ELLIS WHITEHOUSE
Jury to be sent home for...
Prosecution have finished their closing statement. Hopefully they release audio after the trial.
15:11ELLIS WHITEHOUSE
Jury "right to laugh" at D'Wit's "sinister" voice notes where he disguised himself as a woman
Ms Ayling has touched upon the voice notes that Luke D’Wit admitted creating...
Seems strange they're doing legal directions before the last witness. I guess it's because it has started to drag on.
11:20KEY EVENT
Updates from court in the past couple of days
Hello all, Chief Reporter Ellis Whitehouse here once again from Chelmsford Crown Court.
A little update from the...
Murder Squad detectives hunting the killers of a pensioner whose body was found in a freezer have made an arrest. The body of Roy Bigg was found inside the domestic appliance in a derelict wine bar in London in October 2021.
Police believe his body may have been inside the freezer for up to 10...
I guess there's a difference between a short abandonment, which CM and MG may believe is justified to attend court, and a continued abandonment for refusing a covid test.
SS evidence was agreed facts.
11:10KEY EVENT
Rot in hell
Osborne shouted towards friends and family in the jury as he was led out. A person in the public gallery shouted “Rot in hell.”
He has been led out and the judge has left the courtroom. That is the end of the sentencing exercise...
11:09KEY EVENT
Whole life term
Osborne has been instructed to stand: “For the murder of Katie Higton, the sentence of the court is a life sentece. I impose a whole life order.”
She has imposed the same for the murder of Steven, and a sentence of 10 years each for false imprisonment and rape, to...
11:08WAYNE ANKERS
Horrific aggravating factors
The Honourable Mrs Justice Lambert the rape itself had a number of aggravating factors, and would have attracted a sentence of at least a sentence of 15 years before a reduction for guilty plea. She said she must also take into account any...
11:04WAYNE ANKERS
Guilty pleas will not stop whole life term
The judge has said the murders of Katie and Steven would normally be considered as exceptionally serious and give rise to a whole life order without aggravating factors.
She said “I take into account your guilty plea and the other...
Feels like it could be leading up to a WHO.
11:00WAYNE ANKERS
Everything motivated by sex
The judge told Osborne: “Your sexual abuse of Katie’s body is consistent with your conduct generally on that. Everything you did was motivated by sex and your need to degrade and sexually humiliate.
“These...
10:59KEY EVENT
Katie raped by Osborne as she lay dying
The judge said she accepts Osborne had sex with Katie while she was dead or dying.
She said that from messages it was clear that by May 7 Katie had started a relationship with Steven. “While her messages reveal her interest in Steven they...
10:54WAYNE ANKERS
Sexual jealousy
The judge said she makes the following findings: “The motivation of both killings was sexual in nature and deriven from your sexual jealousy, arising in Katie’s decision to start a relationship with Steven…You killed Katie and Steven because you believed they...
10:47KEY EVENT
Mutilation
The court heard Osborne told the woman he was going to kill Steven and sent messages to him purporting to be Katie and even booked a taxi on an app on her mobile phone.
The judge said: “Upon entering the kitchen, you attacked Steven with the kitchen knife.” Steven...
10:37WAYNE ANKERS
Osborne threat to end Katie
She is now dealing with the facts of the case and told the court Osborne and Katie had been in a relationship for five years and on 11 May 2023, she gave a statement to police. The judge said Katie told police things were good at rhe start of the...
10:28WAYNE ANKERS
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...
The sentencing of Huddersfield double murderer Marcus Osbourne will be live streamed.
Evil Osbourne is due to be sentenced over the course of today and tomorrow at Leeds Crown Court by The Honourable Mrs Justice Lambert. He has previously been told he is facing a life sentence - the mandatory...
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