Public schoolboy killed parents to fund US trip

A PUBLIC schoolboy who bludgeoned and stabbed his elderly parents to death before using their credit cards to fund a €45,000 spree was jailed for life yesterday.

Brian Blackwell, 19, killed his mother and father in a “frenzied rage” at their €520,000 bungalow in the leafy village of Melling, Merseyside, last July.

At Liverpool Crown Court he admitted the manslaughter of Sydney Blackwell, 72, and his wife Jacqueline, 61, on the grounds of diminished responsibility.