- Footage exhibits the arrest of double killer Marcus Osborne, 35, now jailed for all times
- He carried out the murders of Kate Higton and Steven Harnett in Huddersfield
This is the second armed police arrested a double killer after he tortured a pair to dying days after his launch, as he was right now given a complete life order behind bars.
Domestic abuser Marcus Osborne stabbed his ex-lover 99 instances, murdered her new associate after chopping off his genitals and raped one other girl at knifepoint.
Osborne, 35, was right now given a complete life order at Leeds Crown Court for the homicide of his ex-partner Katie Higton and her new boyfriend Steven Harnett.
The ‘monstrous’ offender, who had a stunning historical past of home violence murdered the pair shortly after being arrested for threatening to kill them and launched on bail simply two days earlier, a courtroom heard yesterday.
Footage of his later seize after the 2 killings has now been launched by West Yorkshire Police following his sentencing this morning.
Double killer Marcus Osborne was arrested by armed police on May 15 final yr
Marcus Osborne, 35, has been jailed for all times for the double murders in Huddersfield
Katie Higton, 27, was killed after returning residence from a date together with her new boyfriend
Steven Harnett, 25, was additionally killed by Marcus Osborne on May 15 final yr
Personal coach Osborne lay in look forward to Miss Higton, 27, and launched a ‘ferocious and cruel’ assault – brutally stabbing her to dying when she walked within the door after an evening out with Mr Harnett.
He then messaged Mr Harnett, 25, on psychological well being nurse Miss Higton’s cellphone and ‘lured’ him to her home in Huddersfield to his dying, Leeds Crown Court was advised.
Osborne additionally attacked Mr Harnett when he walked by means of the door and stabbed him to dying.
He gruesomely minimize off the sufferer’s penis whereas he was nonetheless alive, prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford revealed.
Mr Sandiford mentioned: ‘The defendant dedicated a premeditated and brutal double homicide motivated by sexual jealousy, a want to train management over Katie Higton, an unwillingness to just accept her choice to depart him and her freedom to type a relationship with one other man.’
Miss Higton was stabbed 99 instances within the frenzied assault whereas Mr Harnett obtained 24 knife wounds.
Moments after the double slaughter, Osborne mentioned: ‘Romeo and Julie can die collectively now, cannot they?’
The courtroom heard 4 kids have been in the home on the time and a girl who was with them was additionally raped by Osborne following the murders.
The choose Mrs Justice Lambert right now imposed 10-year concurrent sentences for the rape and false imprisonment of the opposite girl in the home.
She advised Osborne: ‘There are not any mitigating components in your case apart from your responsible plea. There is not any psychiatric or different proof positioned earlier than me to clarify or assist me perceive your actions.
‘This is a case of such distinctive seriousness that even a really lengthy minimal time period wouldn’t be a simply punishment. What you probably did that evening was horrific.’
A member of the family shouted ‘I hope you rot in hell’ from the general public gallery as Osborne was taken away.
The choose mentioned the killings have been ‘sexual in nature’ and pushed by Osborne’s ‘pathological jealousy’.
She advised Osborne: ‘They have been pushed by your sexual jealousy arising from Katie’s choice to begin a brand new relationship with Steven.
‘I don’t settle for (the murders) are defined by your entrenched insecurity about being deserted on account of a uncared for childhood.
‘Everything you probably did was motivated by intercourse and your have to sexually humiliate and degrade.’
Osborne, pictured, had a stunning historical past of home violence earlier than the 2 killings
West Yorkshire Police has launched footage of his seize simply hours after the 2 murders
Osborne was seen being held down and handcuffed
Police officers have described his crimes as ‘monstrous’ after his sentencing right now
Four kids have been within the Huddersfield residence on the time when Osborne killed his two victims
Steven Harnett, pictured, was murdered shortly after beginning a relationship with Kate Higton
Osborne had been obsessively jealous following the cut up together with his associate of 5 years.
He had been stalking Miss Higton and hacked her social media after she left him two weeks earlier following one other brutal bodily assault.
Threats from Osborne put Miss Higton in worry of her life and she or he went to the police to make a grievance in opposition to him.
Mr Sandiford mentioned she gave an announcement to police in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on May 11 final yr and mentioned Osborne advised her if she ‘ever bought a brand new boyfriend he would kill them each’.
Osborne was arrested the next day however was launched later that very same day on situation he did not return to the household residence or have contact with Miss Higton.
The courtroom heard Osborne was seen ‘pacing up and down’ on the street exterior the household residence in Huddersfield on May 14.
Miss Higton went out that evening for a cinema date with Mr Harnett, with whom she had simply begun a relationship.
She had shared a poignant {photograph} on Snapchat simply hours earlier than she was killed by Osborne.
The courtroom heard Osborne knew of their pairing and was seething with jealousy.
He broke into the home shortly after midnight, armed himself with a kitchen knife and brutally beat unconscious a girl in the home who he ‘held captive’ there.
When Miss Higton arrived residence by taxi after 1am, Osborne was seen to stab her repeatedly within the corridor.
Her last phrases have been: ‘Marcus, I am unable to breathe.’
Mr Sandiford mentioned the scene was likened to a ‘horror story’ with ‘blood pouring’ in all places.
The courtroom heard how after killing Miss Higton, Osborne posed as her on her cellphone and messaged Mr Harnett on Snapchat to ask him over at 2.15am.
The prosecutor mentioned of Mr Harnett: ‘He took the lure and agreed to come back.’
He was advised to come back in by means of the aspect door – stopping him from seeing his girlfriend’s physique – earlier than being stabbed to dying as quickly as he went inside.
Osborne heartlessly advised the girl in the home, ‘That was fast and straightforward’, earlier than including: ‘Romeo and Juliet can die collectively now, cannot they?’
The subsequent morning Osborne contacted neighbours and confirmed them the our bodies, although the girl in the home was capable of go away with the youngsters and alerted police.
Osborne had left by the point officers arrived however handed himself in later that day.
The courtroom heard he had been ‘coercive, controlling and abusive’ in his relationship with Miss Higton.
Over the earlier two years he had been controlling her entry to social media, who she texted and the chums and colleagues she noticed.
He was repeatedly violent in direction of her – and the ‘final straw’ got here lower than three weeks earlier than the murders when Osborne punched, kicked and beat Miss Higton of their home following a petty argument.
She took a number of days to recuperate from her accidents after which left him, the courtroom heard.
The trial was additionally advised there was proof Osborne had intercourse with Miss Higton both when she was dying or together with her physique after dying.
The useless girl’s father Robert Higton described his daughter as a ‘form and compassionate soul’ in a sufferer influence assertion learn to the courtroom, saying: ‘She was the apple of my eye.’
A sufferer private assertion by Ms Higton’s mom Nicola McAlister, learn in courtroom, mentioned Osborne was ‘a monster of the worst form’.
Ms McAlister wrote: ‘I not stay, I merely exist in a tortuous world with out my child.
‘I’m tormented each second of daily that I draw breath.’
Osborne has beforehand pleaded responsible to 2 counts of homicide, and the false imprisonment and rape of the opposite girl in the home.
He has 12 earlier convictions for 27 offences.
They embrace a seven-year jail time period in 2008 for theft, supplying Class A medication and having an imitation firearm.
In 2011 he was jailed for 16 weeks for assaulting a girlfriend by grabbing her throat and punching her.
In 2013 he was given a 54-month jail time period for grievous bodily hurt with intent in an assault on a girl he had been in relationship with for 2 weeks. The courtroom heard he punched her and kicked her within the head.
Soeaking after right now’s sentencing, Supt Alan Weekes who led the investigation into Osborne’s offending, mentioned: ‘It is difficult to know the behaviour of anybody who acted as Osborne did in bringing horror to a household residence. Our ideas are with those that have been impacted by his dreadful crimes.
‘The completely brutal offences dedicated by Marcus Osborne through the morning of May 15 are a few of the worst myself and different skilled murder detectives have investigated in our careers.
‘Osborne’s assaults on his victims have been savage but additionally chillingly calculated of their execution. His behaviour can solely be described as really monstrous.
‘The prolonged sentence handed all the way down to Osborne right now is justice served and can defend the general public from this harmful particular person.’
Asked by reporters why Osborne had been launched on bail following Ms Higton’s grievance given his historical past of home violence, Mr Weekes mentioned the case was being reviewed by the Independent Office for Police Conduct and it will be inappropriate to remark additional.
He mentioned Osborne’s launch on bail on May 12 was to permit an investigation and a file of proof to be constructed for consideration by the CPS for a charging choice, and that ‘sadly the measures that have been put in place, together with bail circumstances, weren’t profitable’.
The officer mentioned West Yorkshire Police took home abuse ‘extraordinarily critically’.
In an announcement, Katie’s household described the influence of her loss, saying: ‘Katie was a shining, stunning and deeply caring soul whose presence lit up any room from the second she entered it.
‘She was a much-loved mom, daughter, niece, granddaughter and sister and her loss has left an enormous, gaping gap within the lives of her household and buddies.
‘We all proceed to endure from having her so brutally taken from us, and none extra so than her 4 stunning kids. Their anguish has been nearly unimaginable to bear.
‘They have misplaced a mum who was completely devoted to them.
‘As a household we are going to all miss her laughter, her enjoyable and jokes and we are going to by no means once more have the enjoyment of loving messages from her at particular instances or of spending valuable moments together with her.
‘There is far lets say concerning the monster who took Katie from us. A person, if he might be referred to as that, whose identify doesn’t should even be talked about inside the identical breath as hers.
‘His sentencing right now is not going to change the life sentence of loss he has inflicted upon us all. We wish to thank all those that have supported us by means of such a horrific time.
‘No household ought to should endure what we’ve got suffered, however the form phrases have helped as we try to recollect the girl who was our world, and who touched the worlds of so many round her.
‘We additionally want to thank the investigation crew at West Yorkshire Police who’ve supported our household by means of this unimaginable time and now ask that our privateness is revered.’