Stephen Alderton, 67, shot Gary and Josh Dunmore at their homes in separate shootings just 40 minutes apart.
A man who murdered a father and son in separate shootings in two villages just six miles apart has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.
Prosecutor Peter Gair said former chartered quantity surveyor Alderton blasted the two men with his Beretta shotgun on March 29 this year.of Joshua Dunmore, 32, and his 57-year-old father Gary Dunmore. After Alderton was arrested hours later by armed officers on a motorway, he told police that “sometimes you have to do what you have to do even if it’s wrong in the eyes of the law”, Mr Gair said.Mr Gair said Alderton sold his home and was living at the time of the offences in a motorhome on a site in Willingham, Cambridgeshire.Mr Gair said that Alderton was “rapidly identified” as a suspect after the shootings due to the family court case and sightings of the white Peugeot.
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