AGONY OVER RELEASE OF ‘I got a text telling me monster who slaughtered my husband was being freed...to live just half an hour away’
shock.” After getting no answer at Linda’s house, Spencer, who had been on a 16-hour booze binge, went to his mother’s home, grabbed a spanner from his car and kicked down the door. He went upstairs and began a ferocious attack on Peter.
Linda remembered: “He totally mutilated my husband. He was stabbed and battered 32 times.
“He bludgeoned him over the head with a spanner then cut his fingers off.
“He knocked my husband’s eyes out, his brain out. It was so bad he had to be identified using his DNA.”
After the killing, Spencer disposed of the evidence and calmly drove to his stepfather’s house, telling him: “You won’t believe what I’ve done. Come over and have a look.”
As well as her treasured signet ring, Linda keeps some of Peter’s ashes next to her bed along with his spectacles and handkerchief. She said she wears the ring containing the rest of his ashes so that, “He goes everywhere with me”. She added: “Peter was my life. I haven’t got one now.”
Spencer, now 33, pleaded guilty to manslaughter through diminished responsibility. He got a minimum of seven years and 148 days in prison when he was sentenced in 2010 and was declared a “serious risk”.
A spokesman for the Prison and Probation Service said: “Life-sentenced offenders are on licence for life, and subject to supervision and strict conditions. If they fail to comply, they can be recalled to prison.”