McVicar should never have been freed to kill again.. it’s a total joke

Killer is handed a second life term MURDER VICTIM’S MUM SLAMS SENTENCING

A MUM whose son was murdered by a Scots thug with a broken bottle has spoken of her fury after he was freed to kill again.

Andrew McVicar, 35, was jailed for life for a second time in an English court last week. He was sentenced to a minimum term of 12 years for killing grandad Timothy Smith, 57, in a robbery last year.

But the brute, from Lanarkshire, could be considered for parole in six years, despite a previous murder conviction for slashing the throat of 20-year-old Tony Harrington almost two decades ago.

Tony’s mum Julie Sinfield branded the latest sentence “a kick in the teeth” and said McVicar should never have been freed to kill again.

She said: “He should never get out. How can someone get two life sentences? He obviously hasn’t learned anything from what he did all those years ago.

“People can go around killing people and be out in six years? It’s a kick in the teeth for that family and it’s an absolute joke.

“Even if he serves 12 years, he will come out and will still be young enough to kill again.”

McVicar and co-accused Colin Garrod received the same sentence at Basildon Crown Court yesterday for the manslaughter of Timothy.

They had gone to the home of Glenn Mattram in Hullbridge, Essex, in March last year. Wearing balaclavas and armed with an imitation gun, they accosted him, his family and Timothy and his wife.

Timothy died from “catastrophic injuries” after he was shoved to the ground and hit his head

on a wall. His killers fled and started spending a holdall of cash they took on designer clothes.

In April last year, police swooped on McVicar’s home in Harthill after his cousin told police he had admitted being part of a robbery where a man died.

Police recovered £34,000 from the pair and Jamie Caborn, who was given an 18-month suspended sentence.

But Julie – whose son was murdered by a 15-year-old McVicar when he was out celebrating with friends on Christmas Eve in 1999 – said the killer had “learned nothing” since claiming his first victim in Bedfordshire.

She said: “I don’t think he will ever change and should never get out.”

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