Killer’s only regret ‘that he didn’t murder whole family’

A HOMELESS man has been jailed for 30 years for murdering a Good Samaritan and her son after they took him into their home.

A judge said the killer had “abused their kindness and generosity” and that the only regret he had expressed was not having killed the rest of the family.

Aaron Barley, 24, stood impassive in the dock as Mrs Justice Carr said words could never express the “devastating and traumatic” effect his actions had had on the Wilkinson family, who had showed him “love and respect”.

Barley stabbed Tracey Wilkinson, 50, and her 13-year-old son, Pierce, to death and left her husband, Peter, fighting for his life, after creeping into their Stourbridge home on March 30.

Mrs Wilkinson, who was described as a caring and compassionate woman, had offered Barley sanctuary after finding him shivering outside a supermarket the previous year.

Jailing Barley, the judge said he had carried out “a vicious and unprovoked attack” in the home where he had once been welcomed. Barley did not react when told he “may never be released” for the two murders and one attempted murder.

The judge told Barley: “You abused your knowledge of the family home which you had only gained through the Wilkinsons’ extraordinary kindness and generosity to you.

“You have shown no remorse – indeed only regret that Mr Wilkinson survived his injuries – and at times satisfaction in what you did achieve.”