Arthur Hutchinson
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Arthur Hutchinson (born Hartlepool, County Durham, England, on 19 February 1941) is an English murderer and rapist who committed three murders and a rape in 1984. He is now serving life imprisonment.
All of Hutchinson's killings and the rape were carried out during one combined attack on a family who had only the day previously celebrated the marriage of one of their daughters.
In 1983, 28-year-old Robert Laitner was stabbed to death by Hutchinson in his bedroom in the South Sheffield suburb of Dore. His father, solicitor Basil Laitner, went upstairs to investigate the noise and was also stabbed to death. Basil’s wife, Avril was downstairs and was stabbed twenty-six times. Returning upstairs the assailant then attacked the youngest of the Laitners’ daughters, Nicola. She was repeatedly raped. The previous afternoon the family had enjoyed the wedding reception of the other Laitner daughter, Suzanne.
Hutchinson was caught, tried, found guilty and later sentenced to life imprisonment.
The trial judge recommended a minimum term of 18 years, which could have seen Hutchinson paroled in 2002, but at least one subsequent Home Secretary is known to have issued him with a whole life tariff (making it unlikely that he will ever be released) and in May 2008 he failed in a High Court appeal for his whole life tariff to be quashed.
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