Later that day, the bodies of pensioners, James and Joan Britton, were found at their home in Strensall, near York.

Mark Hobson had arranged a meeting with his former girlfriend Claire, who had split with him because of his violence, on the 10th of July, and, almost as soon as she arrived, he bludgeoned her to death. Home Office pathologist Professor Christopher Milroy found her head had been struck 17 times with a hammer.

Hobson had wanted her out of the way because he wanted to begin a relationship with her sister. The fact that Diane despised him didn't seem to bother him much.

After he killed Claire, he repeatedly invited Diane to the flat, and, one week after her sister's death, in the hope that Hobson might tell her where she might be, Diane joined Hobson in Cambleforth.

As soon as she arrived, with Claire's body decomposing nearby, he subjected Diane to a prolonged sexual attack, tortured her, and, when he was done, strangled her to death.

In court, the Judge said that Hobson had an abusive relationship with Claire. He added:
 
"When you tired of her, you transferred your attention to her sister, Diane. As Claire stood in your way, you murdered her. You also determined to lure Diane to your home and kill her there and then to use her for your own sexual gratification... You battered Claire with a hammer in as brutal and callous a way as is possible to imagine before placing a plastic bag over her head and you wrapped her body in a bin bag. On 17 July you succeeded in luring Diane to your home. It is plain at your hands she suffered not only terror and pain but sexual harm before she died."

Hobson went on the run after killing the girls and entered the Brittons' home on the day the girls' bodies were found. The 80-year-old former Spitfire pilot, and his 82-year-old wife, were found beaten and stabbed to death later the same day.

Sentencing the former binman to life imprisonment at Leeds Crown Court, Justice Grigson said:

"The enormity of what you have done is beyond words. The damage you've done is incalculable. You not only destroyed the lives of your victims, but you devastated the lives of those who loved them." 

This is Mark Hobson:

                                               

Two years before he killed four innocent people, the loony-tune seen in the photograph above, was brought before York Crown Court charged with stabbing a former workmate five times in Selby town centre and leaving him for dead.

Judge Scott Wolstenholme decided that the appropriate punishment for such a crime was just 100 hours community service.

The mother of the man Hobson stabbed said:

"I'm absolutely sure that if he had received a custodial sentence for what he did to my son, then this whole, dreadful thing would not have happened."

Which is, almost certainly, true. Hobson should never have been in a position to kill. Wolstenholme saw to it that he was.

This be-wigged cretin is as much, if not more, an enemy of society as ever a moron like Hobson is. The Hobsons of this world are encouraged and excused by such as Wolstenholme.

What I am pretty sure most do not understand is this.

It is deliberate.

It is war.

War by degrees, war by another name.

The Wolstenholmes of this world, as with the Blairs and the Thatchers, lose no sleep at all when they hear that their behaviours have done great damage to the rest of us. A much more likely reaction would be a rubbing together of hands, the dancing of jig and laughter fit to bust. And in the diary, words such as these might be written:

"Another job well done".

Do you really think that Wolstenholme was unaware that a bloke with a face like Jack Nicholson's Joker in Batman was a mass-murderer in the making?

Anybody with half an ounce of common sense could've told him that.

I mean, for crying out loud, the nutcase in the picture actually looks like an axe murderer!

Do you really think I'm exaggerating, when I say these things about the creatures at the top of the tree?

Because if you do, you haven't been keeping count.

Diane, Claire, James and Joan, four decent British people who were killed by thick, self-indulgent madman and a gangster system that wants them gone, are pictured below.