Sheffield man to be sentenced for killing his grandma and auntpublished at 11:46 Greenwich Mean Time 21 November 2016
Claire Renwick
BBC Radio Sheffield
A drug user from Crosspool who strangled his grandmother and drowned his aunt in a bath, will be sentenced for the killings at court today.
21-year-old Christopher Whelan armed himself with an axe and a penknife during the attacks on Julie Hill and 75-year-old Rose Hill, after allegedly struggling against an "irresistible impulse" to kill others.
Whelan - from Dransfield Road in Crosspool - later claimed to have heard Satan directing him as he killed the victims at his aunt's home in Shirebrook in February.
He admitted the manslaughter of both victims on the grounds of diminished responsibility.