00:00Last Christmas Day, after taking cocaine, without warning or provocation,
00:07you stabbed and beat your partner, Joanne Pearson, to death.
00:11You tried to kill your teenage son, Jake Brown, stabbing and assaulting him.
00:18You went to a neighbour's flat and there stabbed a young woman, Teona Grant, to death.
00:24And you tried to kill her partner, Bradley Latta, stabbing him several times.
00:31You stabbed your partner's dog and drove from the scene dangerously at high speed
00:36until you were stopped by police and arrested.
00:41You had blood on your hands, literally,
00:44and a blood-stained knife was on the front passenger seat with your fingerprint on it.
00:49You pleaded guilty on 15th April 2025 at this court
00:55to each of the six counts on the indictment.
01:00The terrible crimes you committed that day have torn apart the lives of many people.
01:06I have seen and heard the moving statements made by your many living victims.
01:14Joanne's mother, Susan Pearson, has lost her beloved daughter.
01:17Her sister, Samantha, is also devastated.
01:22Joanne was 38 when you murdered her.
01:26She will never see her parents, sister, and large extended family again.
01:33Christmas will be a time of dread, stress, grief and mourning for the family.
01:38They are haunted by the suffering Joanne must have endured in her final minutes.
01:43Theona was 24 when she died,
01:48a young woman most of whose life should have been ahead of her.
01:52Her mother, Petra, her father, Reginald, and her sisters, Jade and Paris,
01:58are broken-hearted at the loss of their youngest daughter and little sister.
02:02You were charged with murder, attempted murder,
02:04causing unnecessary suffering to an animal,
02:06and possessing a bladed article in a public place.
02:09It is agreed that the appropriate starting point
02:12is a minimum term of 30 years imprisonment
02:15because this case involves the murder of two persons.
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