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A man who murdered a pregnant woman and three children in Derbyshire will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he was sentenced to a whole life prison term.
Lacey and John Paul were Ms Harris's children from a previous relationship, and Connie had been at the house in Killamarsh, near Sheffield, for a sleepover. He murdered the four victims at the house he shared with Ms Harris, 35, in what prosecutor Louis Mably KC told the court were"brutal, vicious and cruel attacks" on a"defenceless" woman and three children.
He added:"Bet you don't usually get four murders in Killamarsh do you - well, five , because my missus was having a baby."Mr Mably said:"On the night of Saturday September 17, 2021, stretching into the early hours of September 19, the defendant brutally and viciously murdered his then partner, Terri Harris, who is aged 35 - and was in the early stages of pregnancy.
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