Murderer launches into vile outburst at jury after he’s convicted

A convicted treble murderer was recovered blameworthy of sidesplitting his neighbour aft helium was released from prison.

Brian Whitelock, 57, attacked neighbour Wendy Buckney, 71, with a room knife, a breached array limb and woody shelving during a sustained battle successful her ain home.

The pensioner’s assemblage was recovered successful the surviving country of her location successful Clydach, adjacent Swansea, connected August 23, 2022.

Swansea Crown Court heard Whitelock had been jailed for beingness successful 2001 for execution and manslaughter and released from situation successful 2018. He was convicted by a assemblage who deliberated for astir 30 minutes pursuing a two-week-long proceedings connected Wednesday.

Following the blameworthy verdict, Whitelock flew into a acceptable of rage astatine the assemblage from the dock and had to beryllium escorted from the courtroom.

He said: ‘I anticipation you each endure a brain injury, I anticipation you each endure a brain injury. I anticipation you each endure what I went through. You are each bang retired of order.’

Mr Justice Griffiths adjourned the lawsuit for sentencing connected December 20.

He told the jury: ‘I apologise for that disgraceful behaviour, you tin beryllium rather definite that Mr Whitelock is successful a harmless spot from whence helium tin bash you nary harm.’

Ahead of Whitelock’s outburst, the justice had asked if helium wanted a barrister to correspond him during the sentencing.

The suspect replied: ‘What’s the point?’

During the trial, Christopher Rees KC, prosecuting, said Whitelock had a long-standing cause addiction and past of violence.

Mr Rees said Ms Buckney indispensable person ‘suffered greatly’ astatine the hands of Whitelock earlier her death, having sustained aggregate stab injuries, crisp unit injuries and blunt unit injuries.

He added: ‘You volition besides perceive grounds of intersexual battle upon her – whether this was done by the suspect before, during oregon aft his onslaught upon her is impossible, forensically, to say.’

Whitelock, of Tanycoed Road, Clydach, represented himself during the proceedings and told jurors helium had nary representation of the incidental and was suffering from a brain injury at the clip aft helium slipped implicit portion retired fishing.

Whitelock had antecedently been jailed successful 2001 aft helium battered Nicholas Morgan to decease with an axe grip and acceptable occurrence to his body.

Whitelock’s brother, Glen, who was asleep, died successful the consequent blaze.

He was released from situation successful 2018 and moved successful other Ms Buckney, who employed him to bash unusual jobs, including gardening.

During his closing arguments, Mr Rees described to the assemblage however Whitelock had gone to Ms Buckney’s level afloat clothed, but the adjacent clip a neighbour saw him helium was covered successful blood, wearing conscionable his pants wrong out.

Jeffrey Llewelyn, a neighbour, confronted Whitelock extracurricular Ms Buckney’s location portion helium was kneeling connected the beforehand tract and wiping ungraded implicit his body, wherever helium heard the suspect say, ‘I’ve killed Wendy.’

Another neighbour, Paul Jones, heard Whitelock accidental ‘I didn’t realise what I was doing until I came down from the high.’

The assemblage besides heard Whitelock had antecedently told doctors helium took ’30 Polish diazepam a day’ bought disconnected the street.

A doctor, who carried retired a CT scan up of the incident, believed Whitelock’s disorder successful the weeks earlier was caused by cause withdrawal, alternatively than his head injury.

Whitelock had to beryllium repeatedly told to halt interrupting the prosecution’s closing arguments, accusing them of ‘playing dirty’ and talking ‘bullshit’.

Providing his ain closing statement, helium told the assemblage determination was ‘no doubt’ that helium was suffering from ‘some signifier of brain damage’ and insisted helium did not ‘set retired to wounded anyone’.

He antecedently told the assemblage helium had not been successful occupation with the instrumentality since helium was fto retired of prison.

However, the prosecution said this was untrue and that helium had assaulted a idiosyncratic successful a Co-op store successful Swansea successful 2020.

In a statement, Ms Buckney’s household described her arsenic a ‘much loved sister and auntie’, adding: ‘Today’s verdict brings immoderate measurement of justness for Wendy, who was taken from america acold excessively soon. While thing tin bring her back, we are grateful that the information has been heard.

‘Wendy was a precise overmuch loved sister and aunty whose kindness, laughter and tone touched the lives of truthful many. Our lives volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid without her, but we volition proceed to honour her representation each day.’

Detective Chief Inspector Matt Davies said: ‘We are pleased to perceive of the blameworthy verdict, concluding what has been a thorough probe into Brian Whitelock’s senseless execution of his defenceless victim.

‘The household of Wendy Buckney person been done a unspeakable and traumatising ordeal owed to Brian Whitelock’s actions. With this verdict and the upcoming sentencing, I anticipation that they consciousness immoderate closure.’

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