For three long weeks members of the Tipping family filled the public gallery in Preston Crown Court to hear the harrowing details of how devoted husband and wife Anthony Tipping, 60, and 56-year-old Patricia Livesey died.
Brothers, sisters, friends and family kept a dignified silence as lawyers, police officers and medical experts outlined the graphic details of a family torn by a night of bloody violence at their home in Higher Walton.
Some stepped into the witness box to talk of the loving couple, who had been together for almost four decades, and the struggles they had with their mentally ill son Lee Tipping.
