Triple killer who murdered elderly neighbour given whole life sentence
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A triple killer who murdered his elderly neighbour after being freed early because he was deemed ‘low risk’ has been handed a whole life sentence. Brian Whitelock, 57, attacked Wendy Buckney, 71, with a kitchen knife, a broken table leg and wooden shelving during a ‘brutal, terrifying’ assault in her own home in August 2022.
He told police who turned up to her house in Clydach, near Swansea, that he had ‘tortured’ Ms Buckney, who suffered ‘too many injuries to count’. Whitelock was dragged down to the cells after screaming at the jury from the dock when they convicted him of murder last month, telling them: ‘I hope you all suffer a brain injury. I hope you all suffer what I went through. You are all bang out of order.’.
Whitelock was previously jailed for life in 2001 for murder and manslaughter. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. The Parole Board originally released him in December 2018 and in December 2020 he was returned to prison after being convicted of assaulting a shop worker in a Co-op store in Swansea.
The following October he was released for a second time and, less than a year later, he murdered again. He moved in opposite Ms Buckney, who employed him to do odd jobs, including gardening. Sentencing Whitelock, Mr Justice Griffiths said: ‘She knew you had been in prison, although not why, but when a relative expressed some anxiety about that, she said “everyone deserves a second chance”.
