WWII vet killer jailed

AN ice user who murdered an elderly World War II veteran in rural Victoria, taking off with his war medals, will spend at least 23 years behind bars.

Adam Lucas Williamson, 40, was the “driving force” behind the fatal burglary at the Springbank home of Kenneth Handford in September 2015.

Williamson, who was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Victoria yesterday, had falsely told his co-offender Jonathan Jeffrey Cooper that Mr Handford was a paedophile before Cooper stabbed the veteran 13 times.