A serial burglar who murdered two pensioners in separate “vicious” attacks has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years. Amos Wilsher was found guilty last month of killing 88-year-old Josephine Kaye, after a trial which also saw him and his younger brother Jason Wilsher convicted of the murder of retired businessman Arthur Gumbley.
The four-week-trial was told 29-year-old Amos Wilsher acted alone when he posed as a gas firm worker to remove a padlock from a gate before killing Mrs Kaye and stealing her safe containing £20,000. The Irish-born widow died in hospital in March 2020, three weeks after suffering a broken leg when she was repeatedly thrown to the floor at her home in Harington Drive, Parkhall, Stoke-on-Trent.
Both brothers were found guilty by the jury of being among a three-strong gang which caused fatal injuries to 87-year-old widower Mr Gumbley in a raid on his bungalow in Little Aston, Staffordshire, in November 2017. Passing sentence at Coventry Crown Court on Friday, Mr Justice Henshaw passed two life terms on Amos Wilsher and jailed his younger brother for life with a minimum tariff of 25 years.
