LONDON (Reuters) - A teenager who bludgeoned his parents to death before using their credit cards to fund a spending-spree holiday in America with his girlfriend was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday.

 

Brian Blackwell, 19, who had a serious personality disorder, had earlier pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to the July 2004 manslaughter of his parents Sydney, 72 and Jacqueline, 61.

 

The couple's bodies were found in September 2004 at their home in an affluent area of Merseyside. Both had been repeatedly stabbed and attacked with a hammer.

 

"This has been a very tragic case involving the death of a mother and father, leaving the remaining family shattered," Mike Keogh of Merseyside Police said after the trial.

 

"Throughout this investigation we have found almost overwhelming evidence of two caring parents who doted on their son Brian and had ambitions only for him to fulfil his undoubted potential," Keogh added.

 

Blackwell was academically successful but had deluded fantasies about his success and importance. His condition, diagnosed as "narcissistic personality disorder", was the same as suffered by John Hinckley, who shot U.S. President Reagan in 1981.

 

After killing his parents Blackwell took his girlfriend on a luxury holiday in America, running up bills of more than 30,000 pounds.

 

When he returned he stayed with his girlfriend's parents and later discovered he had got straight A passes in his maths, chemistry, biology and Spanish A-levels.

 

He had told his girlfriend he could not go home as his parents were away on holiday, but was arrested after the discovery of their decomposing bodies.

 

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this world is a sick sick place! :'(

That is one of the most horrible things I've ever read What kind of person kills their own parents for cash? That's so mean. I hope he rots in the underworld for doing that~!

how can someone do that to someone who raised them and looked out for them all their life? it is so sick i dont see how anyone can do something like that, and then go and spend all their money too! as if killing them was bad enough!!

That is soo sick, he didn't even need to kill them for money, i bet they would have given it to him anyway sometimes i can't stand this evil disgusting world!!!

That is horrible! What a shame.

OMG, thats so terrible....

wow i cant believe ppl can actually do something like that. i'm serious. what the fudge r those ppl thinking bout when they're killing someone. especially someone they know. dont they feel something. omg.

thts terrible how can a person do tht to their parents yea mine get on my nerves sometimes but i would never do tht

Oh my God! I can`t believe this. Parents! Look after your kids for gods sake. This is what MJ talked about in the Bashir documantary. That the parents don`t love their kids and spend time with them.