Traveller get life for murders
A man who murdered a former Shropshire man and then killed again while out on police bail has been jailed for life. He will serve a minimum of 35 years in prison. A man who murdered a former Shropshire man and then killed again while out on police bail has been jailed for life. He will serve a minimum of 35 years in prison. Tony Holland, 23, a member of the travelling community, murdered former Church Stretton man Daniel Hathaway, 44, of Corby, Northamptonshire, in February 2007. The body of Hathaway, who was also a traveller, has never been found. Holland, from Northants, was also convicted yesterday of fatally stabbing Bill O'Conner, 20, from Suffolk, in April 2007. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
A man who murdered a former Shropshire man and then killed again while out on police bail has been jailed for life. He will serve a minimum of 35 years in prison.
Tony Holland, 23, murdered former Church Stretton man Daniel Hathaway, 44, of Corby, Northamptonshire, in February 2007.
The body of Hathaway, who was a traveller, has never been found.
Holland, from Northants, was also convicted yesterday of fatally stabbing Bill O'Conner, 20, from Suffolk, in April 2007.
Holland was jailed for life for double murder at Ipswich Crown Court yesterday.
After more than nine hours of deliberation, the jury found Holland guilty of killing Mr O'Connor while on bail following his arrest for Mr Hathaway's murder.
He was also found guilty of Mr Hathaway's murder.
Mr O'Connor was stabbed eight times in head, heart, eye and neck after Holland thought he had been "showing a fancy" to his fiancée Lisa Smith.
The court heard Holland, a member of the travelling community who had denied both charges, had killed Mr Hathaway as part of a plan to rob him of thousands of pounds.
