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Kill Total: |
4
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Kill place: |
Selby,West
Yorkshire & Strensall, York. |
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Kill date: |
17th July 2004 |
Victim(s): |
Claire Sanderson Diane Sanderson
James Britton
Joan Britton |
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Date of Birth: |
2 Sep 1969 |
Marital Status: |
Single |
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AKA: |
Unknown |
Occupation: |
refuse collector |
Hobson killed his
girlfriend Claire Sanderson, 27, and her twin sister
Diane at a flat in the village of Camblesforth. He
then killed an elderly couple in a nearby village.
Sunday 18 July 2004,
The twins' mutilated bodies were discovered by Diane's
boyfriend on 18 July 2004. He subsequently murdered an
elderly couple, James and Joan Britton, at their home in
the village of Strensall, a few miles north of York..
Police said the two women had died several days apart and Diane had been sexually abused and strangled. Both had been stripped naked and Claire's body had been wrapped in bin liners.
25 July 2004,He was arrested at a
petrol station in the village of Shipton-by-Beningbrough,
near York, following a nationwide manhunt
April 2005, Hobson admitted all
for murders and was given a life sentence.
The court was told that Hobson had
stabbed a love rival five times in the chest in a
daylight attack in front of shoppers in Selby in 2002,
leaving him with a punctured lung. Hobson had admitted
grievous bodily harm and managed to avoided a prison
sentence, instead receiving community service.
The trial also revealed that Hobson was
an alcoholic and cocaine user.
January 2006, letters were
released from Wakefield Prison where Hobson blamed
alcohol and drugs for his killing spree.
February 2007, some 15 months after Hobson's
failed appeal, the European Court of Justice began a
review of lifelong imprisonment to determine whether
such sentences amounted to a violation of human rights.
