A man with an “insatiable thirst” for money is facing life in jail for the cold-blooded “execution” of his parents for his £230,000 inheritance.
Convicted fraudster Stephen Seddon, 46, had once before tried to murder his father, Robert Seddon, 68, and mother, Patricia, 65, by driving into a canal with them strapped in the back seats in a faked road accident.
Seddon then “played the hero” in the aftermath of the “accident” after aborting the murder plan when bystanders went to their aid in the submerged car.
But after that plan failed, four months later he blasted the couple to death with a sawn-off shotgun at their suburban home in Sale, Greater Manchester.
His parents had made him sole beneficiary of their £230,000 estate in their will and paid with their lives.
Yesterday, the father of three from Seaham, County Durham, was convicted of two counts of attempted murder on March 20 last year and two counts of murder on July 4, after a five-week trial at Manchester Crown Court.
Seddon shook his head in resignation as he stood in the dock as the foreman of the jury delivered their four guilty verdicts.
Seddon was found guilty by a majority of 11 to one on each count following 18 hours and 11 minutes of deliberations by the jury.