Samurai sword killer stabbed his classmate Shocking past of feral teen yobs
A TEEN who murdered a factory boss in a samurai sword attack had previously stabbed a schoolmate.
Kiyran Earnshaw, 18, and Luke Gaukroger, 16, were jailed for life this week after they admitted murdering dad-of-two Robert Wilson, 53.
He was stabbed more than 100 times, and Earnshaw also admitted stabbing a colleague of Mr Wilson who went to the aid of the night-shift supervisor.
The sick thugs stamped on Mr Wilson’s head and mutilated his body, taking it in turns to use the 2ft sword and trying to cut his head off.
It has emerged that Earnshaw, who started the vile attack after trespassing on land belonging to a pharmaceutical plant, had four previous offences to his name – including stabbing another teenager after school. This week Leeds crown court heard he had been excluded from school 17 times.
In 2017 he was given a 12-month youth supervision order for GBH and possession of an offensive weapon.
He was 15 when he got into a fight with a boy outside the school gates.
A teacher took him to a cafe to calm down and let him go when they thought things had settled. But later Earnshaw, of Batley, West Yorks, was in a friend’s car when they drove past his victim. He leapt out and stabbed him twice in the abdomen with a small fish-filleting knife. Earnshaw’s mother took him and the knife to the police station and he later claimed that his victim had been bullying him at school. While still serving this order he was again in court in 2018 and received another rehabilitation order for possessing a knife on school premises. He was attending a pupil referral centre in Huddersfield and when he entered he was searched and found with a blade.
The court heard his relationship with his parents had broken down and he was l iv ing with a grandparent. He was said to “present a high risk of causing serious harm to others”. Then in June 2019 he pushed and punched a worker at the Premier Store in Linthwaite. He was barred from the premises.
Gaukroger, of Golcar, West Yorks, had also been excluded from school and had taken a BB gun on to the premises. Two months before the murder he had also broken into a man’s home armed with a bat.
The teenager, then aged 15, had been given a 12-month referral order.