Family Relief at Killers Suicide

by liamssoft | September 4, 2007 at 04:00 am

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A family blames the criminal justice system for looking after the interests of criminals instead of the public.. Hughes was given three life sentences in July 1996. he strangled Deborah at the family home in Hemsby, Norfolk,UK, before murdering stepsons James, seven, and six-year-old Matthew while they slept. Hughes was to be released after 13 years, and had escaped when he committed suicide. Each of their lives was only worth four years and four months in prison. Their answer to the murders would have been his whole life in prison.

The family of a mother and two children murdered by her husband today spoke of their relief that the killer had apparently committed suicide after absconding from prison.

Martyn Hughes, 50, was found dead in his car after going missing from Sudbury open prison at the weekend.

He was just a year away from being released from a 13-year minimum sentence for the manslaughter of his wife, Deborah, and the murders of his stepsons, James and Matthew Brackhahn.

Desmond Sadler, Deborah's father, said he and his wife believed Hughes would not have been able to cope with life after being released from prison.

The couple feared he would then have come looking for them.

Mr Sadler, 67, a retired helicopter pilot, said he was still angry at Hughes's 13-year minimum jail term for the deaths of three innocent people and criticised the criminal justice system for primarily looking after the interests of criminals.

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