Cocaine-fuelled thug sentenced to life for murder of Iraq War veteran | UK | News

A cocaine fuel that killed an Iraq war veteran in a wild street attack was imprisoned for life. 32 -year -old Gregory Twigg punched three “strong and cowardly” on a wild attack on a medical retired British army Senior Lee Woodward. He died after 10 months.

Twigg, who was sentenced to eight years and three -month imprisonment after being found guilty of attacking Mr. Woodward in September 2022 with the intention of attacking Mr. Woodward, was said to have now served at least 11 years behind the sticks. At the prisoner hearing, Twigg was criticized by the judge for “compensated ıyla by expanding and strengthening the pain of his victim’s partner and stepmother.

Sacrifice influence statements on Friday Stafford Crown Court read the 39 -year -old victim’s relatives, Mr. Woodward in the hospital during the “deterioration” told about the feelings of pain and pain.

Mr. Woodward was a “keeping his family strong”.

The hearing was told that one night he was out one night when he was involved in a row with Mr. Woodward’s fiancée Kate Griffin.

Griffin said in a statement that the victim’s effect on the court said: “As a family, my son and passed through our hell.”

The authority added that the injuries given to his partner were “violent and cruel ve and that watching his worse in the hospital was“ absolutely terrible ”.

Twigg, who admitted that he took cocaine and made Votka and Sambuca drunk, said his case that Mr. Woodward swore and he was angry after threatening him and his friends as he threatened him and his friends.

The driver Nathan Lockley pulled the car and jumped from the rear seat of the Twigg car and revealed three ruthless coups in Mr. Woodward.

David Mason Kc, Twigg’s first punch “like a very confused boxer” after leaving, he said he did not pose any threat to the defendant Mr. Woodward attacked, “drink and coke and angry,” he said.

From a nearby pub, CCTV caught Twigg by hitting a second punch in a parked car, hitting Mr. Woodward, more than six meters.

The third fist left him unconscious on the road and fled the scene with his Twigg friends. He was arrested in Newcastle-Under-Lyme shortly after an hour.

Mr. Woodward injuries, so severe doctors, said that the rest of his life would require full -time care in a nursing home, but in April 2023 he died in the hospital after the peritonitis and pneumonia contracted.

Twigg insisted that Mr. Woodward didn’t think of having a serious harm, and he just wanted to give him a black eye to leave him and his friends alone.

He said that he had punched him twice more times because he was afraid that Mr. Woodward was going to hit him back, and he was “ruined” because he had resulted in the death of his actions.

However, Ms. Griffin said that her 10 -year -old partner, who retired from the British army after her back injury in Iraq, was based on strong drugs and will never start fighting due to back pain.

In the court, Twigg appeared to have been imprisoned between 2014-2019 and that he had three convictions and had a threat of killing and theft for 30 months in 2020.

Ahmad Hossain KC said: “Mr. Twigg easily understands that he will receive life imprisonment and regret.

“Now he understands not only the terrible and tragic outcome of his violence, but also some of the triggers of this violence.”

In the past, Blugton, Stoke-on-Trent’ten Twigg sentence, judge Roger Thomas KC, the minimum period to be served from the penalty point will be 11 years.

The judge meant that the minimum period would be 14 years, but the time and time spent for arrest had to be reduced for three years.

Hakim The results are hard to admit that you really regret it, even if you regret the consequences of your illegal violence as long as the results are concerned about you. ”

The judge said he would be guilty of murder if Twigg had really regretted the “continuous and heavy” attack in three stages.

Speaking in July after the four -day murder case, Detective Sergeant Garry Jackson said: “This is an extremely tragic situation that causes an unreasonable pain and loss of Lee’s family.

“In two separate cases, they had to pass this infuri from court, and I am happy to secure this conviction for them after too much heart.”