JUSTICE finally caught up with William Jennings when he was jailed for
life yesterday for murdering his three-year-old son more than 26 years
ago.
''This is the day of judgment for which you have been waiting since
December, 1962,'' said Mr Justice Otton at the end of a nine-day trial.
Leeds Crown Court was told that after murdering his son Stephen at
their former home in Little Gomersal, West Yorks, Jennings buried his
body under a pile of stones in a field.
He reported the child missing and Britain's biggest hunt was launched.
The skeleton lay undiscovered until last year when a dog sniffed out the
boy's remains.
After reaching their unanimous verdict, the jury was told that
Jennings and his former wife, Eileen Goodall, Stephen's mother, were
jailed for 18 months three years after he disappeared for neglecting
another child, two-year-old Barry.
Jennings, of Albrighton, Wolverhampton, who has remarried, had
admitted manslaughter but denied murder.
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