Sunday People

WOMAN’S ANGUISH AFTER DAD What kind of humans would kill someone over a games console?

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The day before the murder Vaill, known to close friends as Eddy, left a chilling post on his Facebook page hinting at what was to come. A picture of a grinning Grim Reaper with a bloodied knife carried the message: “The question isn’t who’s going to let me… who’s going to stop me.”

Aimy says the killer pair, who pretended to be friends with her dad, robbed and killed him in a pathetic attempt to be as famous as notorious 1930s couple Bonnie and Clyde.

Aimy said: “They were kissing at the back of the police van when they got arrested.

“I’ve heard that Deborah said to William, ‘Do you know who we are now? We are the new Bonnie and Clyde.’

“But they aren’t Bonnie and Clyde. They are two fantasists. They are complete and utter idiots.

“I hope they torture themselves for the rest of their lives over what they’ve done.”

Firefighte­rs found Eamon’s charred body at his home in Skelmersda­le, Lancashire, last July.

A postmortem revealed he had suffered multiple head injuries, stab wounds and had been set on fire.

CCTV footage showed Vaill and Andrews fleeing in the middle of the night with two bags.

They were traced by officers to a nearby address.

Police discovered they had sold several items belonging to

Eamon, including the

£ 250 games console and a sound system.

Aimy made the painful decision to pay her dad one final visit in the mortuary but says she is now haunted by what she saw.

She s aid: “For months afterwards I couldn’t sleep and I’d wake up screaming seeing my dad’s face.” Tragic Eamon became close friends with weirdo Vaill after meeting him more than two decades ago through mutual pals. Aimy, of Maghull, Merseyside said of Vaill: “I’ve known him my whole life. He was always round our house.

“I thought he was cool when I was a child.”

Vaill moved away to Holland but later returned.

Aimy recalled: “He came back into our lives but seemed different. I knew he was bad news.

“He started getting weirder around the time Deborah came in his life.

“They knew each other at school and met again years later.”

Aimy found out about her dad’s horrific death after her cousin sent her a private message on Facebook.

She recalled: “I was getting ready for work and I got a message to say he had died. At first I thought he died in a fire but when police told me what had happened I was sick.

“I felt so angry and hurt. I can’t describe the rage I felt.”

Aimy says the couple made off with her dad’s Playstatio­n and stereo as well as some Elvis memorabili­a.

She said: “He loved that Playstatio­n. We used to play FIFA on it and he was a massive Manchester United fan.

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“My dad was also a massive Elvis fan. If I Could Dream was his favourite song.

“I’ve also heard Vaill took my dad’s clothes and changed into them after he killed him.

“I’ve heard he torched my dad while he was wearing my dad’s suit.

“My dad was disabled. How could he have done this to him? Dad had a

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