Briton guilty of family murders

by Sanjay Jha | June 25, 2008 at 08:51 pm | 117 views | add comment

A former British IT worker Neil Entwistle has been charged with murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife and daughter.

A British man has been found guilty of murdering his American wife and nine-month-old baby by a US jury.

Neil Entwistle, 29, of Worksop, Notts, fled to the UK after killing wife Rachel, 27, and Lillian Rose, at their home in Massachusetts in January 2006.

He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole when sentenced for first degree murder later.

Entwistle had denied the charges and his lawyers said they would appeal against the convictions.

Jurors at Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn, Massachusetts, had deliberated for 13 hours.

They rejected the defence that Rachel had killed their baby before turning the gun on herself, and that Entwistle had covered it up to "protect her honour".

Former IT worker Entwistle, wearing a black suit with a blue tie, looked down as the jury returned its verdicts, before closing his eyes.