Triple killer who dismembered bodies of two friends given whole-life jail sentence

A triple killer has been handed a whole-life sentence at Winchester Crown Court. James Desborough, forty, murdered and dismembered two friends, then strangled a cellmate to death while awaiting trial, reportedly over snoring. The Guardian reports that Mr Justice Saini called the case's circumstances unique, and that fragments of the bodies were hidden in woods in Cornwall. Desborough will now spend the rest of his life in prison.

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