‘How on earth have we come to this’ asks wife of man hacked to death by teens

Killer Kiyran Earnshaw, 18, who launched the attack. Picture: West Yorkshire Police/PA

The wife of a factory supervisor hacked to death by two teenagers who tried to decapitate him with a samurai sword confronted the killers in a UK court as she questioned: “How on earth have we come to this?”

CCTV footage, played in court on Wednesday, showed how Robert Wilson, 53, was investigating youths hanging around outside the Thornton and Ross pharmaceutical plant in Huddersfield when he was attacked by Kiyran Earnshaw, 18, and 16-year-old Luke Gaukroger, who passed the 20in sword between them.