Killer of twins and elderly couple may have been planning more murders

A FORMER binman who killed his girlfriend, her twin sister and a defenceless elderly couple may have been planning to slaughter even more people, a court heard yesterday.

Distraught relatives of the victims of Mark Hobson wept as a judge heard how he murdered 27-year-old Claire Sanderson before luring her sister, Diane, to her death a week later.

Leeds Crown Court was told how shaven-headed Hobson, aged 35, subjected Diane Sanderson to horrific sexual mutilation, possibly while she was still alive, before going on the run.