Brian Whitelock assaulted Wendy Buckney, 71, with various weapons in a savage assault in August 2022.

A convicted double killer will die in prison after being jailed for the rest of his life for murdering his neighbour whom he savagely attacked following his release.

Brian Whitelock, 57, assaulted neighbour Wendy Buckney, 71, with a kitchen knife, a broken table leg and wooden shelving during a sustained assault in her own home.

The bloodstained and naked pensioner was discovered in the living room of her home in Clydach, near Swansea, on August 23 2022. She had also been sexually assaulted.

Swansea Crown Court heard Whitelock had been jailed for life in 2001 for murder and manslaughter and released from prison in 2018.

He battered Nicholas Morgan to death with an axe handle and set fire to his body.

Whitelock’s brother, Glen, who was asleep in an upstairs room, died in the subsequent blaze.

Christopher Rees KC, prosecuting, told the court: “There are, the prosecution say, significant similarities in relation to the cases.

“In both cases, a weapon was used to kill by repeated blows and both victims sustained severe injuries to the face.

“In both cases, explosive and disproportionate violence was used without any obvious motive. On both occasions, the defendant was under the influence of diazepam.

“The prosecution further say that the murder of Wendy Buckney has a further, sinister, sexual element to it.

“He inflicted stab wounds, fractures........

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