SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Southern California man who killed two ladies with a meat cleaver after a Recent twelve months’s Eve event while his accomplice and son waited in a automobile out of doors used to be sentenced Friday to existence in jail without the risk of parole.
Christopher Ken Ireland, 42, of Huntington Sea high-tail used to be sentenced in Orange County Superior Court by a in discovering who called the killings vicious and callous. He used to be convicted of execute in November.
Ireland testified that he killed Yolanda Holtrey, 59, and Michelle Luke, 49, on Jan. 1, 2017, after which returned to set aside fire to Holtrey’s dwelling, which prosecutors stated used to be an strive to assassinate proof.
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Ireland stated the killings occurred after Holtrey caught him having intercourse with Luke while Ireland’s accomplice and 11-twelve months-weak son were in a automobile parked out of doors, ready for Ireland to toddle away. He stated he used to be defending himself after Holtrey attacked him with the cleaver and later Luke attacked him with a kettlebell.
Christopher Ireland. (Orange County DA)
Nonetheless the prosecutor, Label Birney, stated it used to be “absurd” that Ireland, an Military feeble with hand-to-hand strive against coaching, would possibly were timid of the older, smaller ladies, the Orange County Register reported.
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After killing Holtrey, Ireland testified that he walked out of the house however then returned and killed Luke. He returned a third time hours later to set aside fire to the house, authorities stated.
A particular person that used to be renting a room within the house wakened to smoke and called 911.
