Oyogist has learned that a man Identified as Leighton Snook, 28, has been issued a life sentence with minimum term of 30 years at Ipswich Crown Court for murdering his uncle, Donald Ralph, 83, at his bungalow in Aldham, Essex.
Snook’s 17-year-old accomplice, Tyler Love, was also sentenced to eight years imprisonment for manslaughter and burglary.
The pair were accused of stealing a Ruger self-loading 22-calibre rifle, a Browning shotgun and a Volvo car from Mr Ralph’s bungalow in Halstead Road on December 28 last year.
Post-mortem examinations of Mr Ralph found three fractures to his cheekbone and abrasions to his neck, throat and back from what Judge Levett described as a ‘brutal’ attack.He said: ‘Mr Ralph was a vulnerable old man and the death was in his own home and the burglary was planned and premeditated.
