A man who stabbed his ex-partner’s mother to death after she supported her daughter’s decision to end their abusive relationship has been handed a life prison sentence with a minimum term of 25 years and six months.
Jacob Clark, 25, hit 46-year-old Diane Cleary round the head with a brick then stabbed her with two knives and a pair of scissors as her daughter Caitlin Cleary, then aged 25, desperately tried to protect her mother.
