Son murdered both his parents by stabbing them hundreds of times

Killer son, 36, who murdered both his parents by stabbing them hundreds of times before mutilating his father’s corpse and then trying to flee the country is jailed for 27 years

• Lee Tipping was jailed for life for killing Anthony Tipping and Patricia Livesey 
• The 36-year-old stabbed them hundreds of times at their home in Lancashire
• He tried to flee the country after the horrific attack but was arrested by police 
• Tipping had claimed self-defence, but was found guilty of the double murder
• A judge at Preston Crown Court imprisoned him for a minimum of 27 years today

A son who murdered both his parents by stabbing them hundreds of times before mutilating his fathers corpse has been jailed for 27 years.

Lee Tipping had tried to flee the country after killing Anthony Tipping and Patricia Livesey at their Lancashire home in November, last year.

But he was arrested by police and charged over the vicious attack, which came hours after he had broken down a bedroom door, sparking a row. 

The frenzied attack by the 36-year-old saw his father Anthony stabbed more than 130 times, including at least 65 times in the chest and 15 times in the abdomen.

A jury at Preston Crown Court was told his father had also suffered a number of ‘very unusual’ injuries to his genital area, believed to have been inflicted after his death.

The court heard Patricia had been stabbed 153 times, including 67 times in the chest, 39 in the abdomen, 10 in the neck and three times around the eyes.

Lee Tipping (centre)  stabbed mother Patricia Livesey, 57, (right) to death along with his father Anthony Tipping, 60 (left)

Lee Tipping (pictured) was jailed for a minimum of 27 years at Preston Crown Court today after being found guilty of two counts of murder

Both parents had also been beaten before they died, with Patricia suffering a black eye and a shoulder injury consistent with being hit with a blunt weapon.

Tipping claimed he had been acting in self-defence, and that the genital injuries to his father were caused by him ‘chucking’ a knife at his father, but a pathologist said this did not line up with the evidence. 

A jury found him  guilty of two counts of murder by the jury after a four-week trial, and today he was jailed for life, with a minimum term of 27 years.

During the trial the jury heard that 57-year-old Patricia had texted her sister on the night of the attack with the message: ‘Please God, I hope someone will help us.’

The horrific attack took place on November 19, last year, after Patricia and 60-year-old Anthony had gone to the pub with her sister Catherine Riding and her husband-in-law Martin.

Patricia Livesey (left) and Anthony Tipping (right) were stabbed to death by their 36-year-old son, Lee Tipping, in November last year 

Forensic investigators found Patricia Livesey had been stabbed 153 times, while Anthony Tipping had been stabbed over 130 times

The court heard Anthony received a phone call from his son, who told him he had ‘kicked the bedroom door down’.

Anthony is said to have responded: ‘You’d better f****** not have.’

Mr Riding said that Patricia seemed ‘anxious’ about the situation, while Mrs Riding told the court her sister seemed ‘scared to go home’.

She said: ‘She said ‘this could be my last gin’.

‘She didn’t want to go home. She’d never really said that before. I said why, and she said she just didn’t want to go home. So I knew there was something.’

Shortly after arriving home, at around 11.30pm, Patricia texted Mrs Riding: ‘OK, I’ll probably not sleep, he’s being a f****** shit.’

Ten minutes later, she texted: ‘Please God, I hope someone will help us.’

The following day, when Patricia failed to arrive at her mum’s house for dinner, Mrs Riding and her other sister, Pauline Haworth, visited the house to see if she was ok.

They called 999 at 1.43pm on November 20 and the couple’s bodies were found in the upstairs of the house later that day, after police broke down a side door.

After killing his parents, Tipping booked a flight to Rome and drove to Manchester Airport, where he checked into a nearby hotel under a fake name, the court heard.

When he was arrested at around 7.30pm on November 21, he claimed he had acted in self-defence.

He told police his father had been ‘bullying him all his life’ and was ‘a monster’ who would ‘fight to the death’.

Tipping denied murder but admitted manslaughter. He has a history of mental health problems

Tipping admitted to killing his parents but denied murder, claiming self-defence and loss of control against his father and loss of control in relation to the death of his mother.

And following a four-week trial at Preston Crown Court, a jury rejected his defence and found Tipping guilty of two counts of murder.

Det Chief Insp Jill Johnston, of the Force Major Investigation Team, said after the sentencing: ‘I welcome the life sentence handed down to Lee Tipping by the courts, which reflects the seriousness of his offending and was aggravated by his lack of remorse.

‘Although no sentence can and will never make up for the horrific, sustained and violent attack Lee subjected his parents to, I hope that Tricia and Anthony’s families and friends get some sense of closure knowing that this case has now come to a conclusion.

‘They have remained incredibly dignified throughout this investigation and my thoughts remain with them at this very difficult time.’

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