Burglar, 16, murdered OAP for car; ATTACK.Byline: STEPHEN WHITE KINDLY grandad George Thornley was killed for the keys to his car by a schoolboy he had offered a cup of tea. Sixteen-year-old Christopher O'Hara was yesterday jailed for life and branded a "drain on society". O'Hara attacked George, 68, with a rubber mallet mallet, n a hammering instrument. mallet, hard, n a small hammer with a leather-, rubber-, fiber-, or metal-faced head; used to supply force or to supplement hand force for the compaction of foil or amalgam and to seat cast and a kitchen knife in a botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. robbery. He died in hospital. The trial heard a few weeks before Mr Thornley had paid O'Hara pounds 20 to do some gardening before giving him a cup of tea and a cigarette. O'Hara, of Clifton, near Kirkham, Lancs, who denied murder, will serve a minimum of 17 years in prison after being convicted. At Preston crown court judge Mrs Justice Linda Dobbs told him: "You have added your name to the growing list of youngsters responsible for the death of innocent members of the public. "This was a case of burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. which went terribly wrong. In my view this is a clear case of murder for gain." CAPTION(S): JAILED Christopher O'Hara |
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