A father and his teenage son have been jailed for life for knifing a thief to death in a brutal vigilante killing.
David King, 55, and Edward King, 19, armed themselves with knives in June 2021 before hunting down Neil Charles, 47, when they saw him trying to open cars and doors on a housing estate in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. After chasing him down a road on the Moreton Hall development, David stabbed Mr Charles in the chest with a double-edged fighting knife.
His son sliced the victim's knee using a 27-inch ninja sword and used the huge weapon to stab the tyre of Mr Charles’ pushbike, which he left at the scene. The Mirror reports that during the 10-week trial last April, both men denied intentionally killing Mr Charles but were found guilty.
