‘Cold-blooded monster’ jailed for Aldi murder of mum
A “MONSTER” who stabbed a supermarket worker to death in front of horrified shoppers because he blamed her for the breakdown of his relationship with her mother has been jailed for at least 30 years
Neville Hord (44), admitted the “cold-blooded public execution” of Jodie Willsher (30), at the Aldi supermarket where she worked in Skipton just before Christmas.
He murdered Mrs Willsher in revenge after her mother, Nicole Dinsdale, told police weeks earlier that Hord (right) had attacked her. The killer apparently blamed his victim for the break-up of his relationship with her mother. Prosecutor Peter Moulson QC told Bradford Crown Court Hord stabbed mother-of-one Mrs Willsher several times before he was restrained by members of the public.
He said it was a “cold-blooded public execution perpetrated for the purpose of revenge”.
The prosecutor said the attack was witnessed by many people, including a child, as well as being caught on CCTV.
He said the attack was preplanned and Hord, who had tracked his victim, also took an axe with him to the supermarket.
Sentencing him, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said: “You are a monster, Mr Hord.”
Describing him as “truly and horribly rotten to the core”, the judge added: “You sentenced her, in your mind, to death.”
The judge went on: “You chose a time and a place to, in effect, execute, to kill, to murder.”
He said the killing was calculated to cause the “maximum pain, horror, shock and trauma”.
In a statement read to the court, Ms Willsher’s husband, Malcolm, said his life and that of his four-year-old daughter, Megan, had been ripped apart.