Man stabbed step-daughter, 11, to death as she protected mum (Metro)

A man has been jailed for life after stabbing his wife and her 11-year-old daughter to death.

Christopher Boon, 28, pleaded guilty at Bristol Crown Court to killing Laura Mortimer and Ella Dalby at a house in Dexter Way, Gloucester, on May 28.

Richard Smith QC, prosecuting, told the court Ms Mortimer, 31, had ‘clearly fought for her life’ and her daughter Ella witnessed at least part of the attack before being killed as she ‘bravely came to the help of her mother’.

‘Their bodies were subsequently found in the kitchen floor,’ Mr Smith said.

‘Mother laying side by side with daughter in significant pools of blood.’ Read more