murdered a vulnerable young man by attacking him and throwing him into a river has been handed a life sentence. Sebastian Smith, from Hawick, who was previously known as Luke Greenland, was found guilty of killing tragic Joe Pooley in August 2018 and must now serve a minimum of 21 years behind bars.
The 35-year-old and his two co-defendants, Becki West-Davidson and Sean Palmer, were charged by police after the young man’s body was pulled from the River Gripping in Suffolk.
Detectives found that the 22-year-old had been unlawfully killed in the early hours of August 7 and that his likely cause of death was immersion in water.The tragic victim, who needed the help of adult social care, had slept with West-Davidson who then “stoked up.
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