Canonbie man assisted killers as sentences slammed

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A mum has blasted as “disgraceful” sentences handed to three people, including a Canonbie man, who helped her son’s killers flee the UK.Carlisle Crown Court heard how Kane Hull and Liam Porter were assisted by friends as they took steps to evade police after Ryan Kirkpatrick, 24, was brutally killed in the city on September 18 last year.Canonbie businessman Ross Henry Neville admitted helping the killers and he was given 200 hours’ unpaid work, a six-month night time curfew and a £12,000 fine.Hull, 29, knifed Mr Kirkpatrick outside a city bar in front of his friends in what a High Court judge said amounted to an “execution”.Porter, 33, provided help and encouragement.Hull and Porter were handed life prison sentences in October after being convicted of murder, being ordered to spend a minimum of 28 and 26 years, respectively, behind bars.In the hours after the fatal stabbing, Neville, 32, of Broadmeadows, transported Hull and Porter away from the city and was caught on the CCTV at his own address as he housed the pair.And police unearthed a string of phone calls between Neville and Hull just minutes after the killing.Neville’s white Toyota Land Cruiser, with personalised plates, was then captured in the Smithfield area at the same time as a witness saw a burning object being tossed into a field.Shortly after midnight, the vehicle was caught on CCTV at Neville’s own property returning as he, Hull and Porter got out of the Toyota.Father-of-two Neville, who deals in commercial vehicles, went with Hull to Newcastle and back on September 19, and then on to acquire a car from Carlisle.Michael Celmins, 33, of Irthington near Carlisle, later drove to an Alston hotel to provide Hull with a stolen Skoda sourced from Manchester.And