Father 'had feeling of peace' over killing plan

A father who stabbed his son to death and tried to murder his baby daughter after his wife left him for his best friend was given a "feeling of peace" when he devised the plan to kill his children, a court heard.

Leslie Pepall, 28, is accused of murdering his four-year-old son Ben at the family home in Gosport in Hampshire by stabbing him through the chest and then hitting him about the head with a lamp stand.