A killer who murdered his ex-lover's mother has been jailed for a minimum 19 years. Michael Dorey was today handed a life sentence at the High Court in Glasgow.
27.07.2022 - 14:03 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A trucker who destroyed his then-lover's home by reversing his articulated lorry into the front of her house was jailed for 10 years on Wednesday.
Derek Wellington, 34, flew into a drunken rage after his girlfriend, Sara Cassidy, refused to meet him. He screamed down the phone at her: "I am going to park my lorry in your living room."
Miss Cassidy, 33, later out on the street near her home in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, she spotted Wellington driving past. Sounds described as "like an earthquake" then rent the air as Wellington repeatedly reversed his HGV into Miss Cassidy's house, completely wrecking it.
The destruction left a £475,000 repair bill with both Miss Cassidy and a neighbour losing their homes. A friend and two children who were inside at the time escaped unhurt.
Wellington, of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, appeared by video link for sentence at the High Court in Stirling after pleading guilty in Glasgow earlier this month to a string of charges including culpable and reckless endangerment of lives. He was told by judge Lord Armstrong that as a result of his actions, Miss Cassidy had lost the home she had lived in for five years, and its entire £25,000 contents.
Lord Armstrong said that "taking into account the grave consequences" of Wellington's criminal actions, the number of people affected, the impact on their lives, and the financial loss, he was satisfied there was no appropriate alternative to a custodial sentence. The court heard that Wellington - who had 24 previous convictions, including several for assault and threatening behaviour - had been on a bail order not to go near the mother-of-two at the time of the incident, on September 6th 2021.
The condition had been imposed after he left her needing
A killer who murdered his ex-lover's mother has been jailed for a minimum 19 years. Michael Dorey was today handed a life sentence at the High Court in Glasgow.
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