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A MAN who stabbed a thief to death after seeing him break into his home on doorbell footage has been jailed for 19 years.
A jury acquitted Karl Townsend, 32, of the murder of Jordan Brophy, of St Helens, outside his Halewood home on October 29 last year, but found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Sentencing him at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday, Judge Andrew Menary QC said: “Jordan Brophy was not an angel, he had several previous convictions and was under investigation for other matters at the time.
“Whatever he was doing that night, he clearly didn’t deserve to die the way he did.”
Murder
The judge said Mr Brophy and three others had targeted Townsend’s home while he, his partner and child were out, with the intention of carrying out a “smash and grab” burglary to steal a stash of controlled drugs.
The court heard the burglars arrived at the property in Beechwood Avenue in a convoy of vehicles and had a getaway driver outside.
Their arrival was picked up by cameras through a Ring doorbell app and Townsend returned to his home carrying a large kitchen knife, along with his younger half-brother Jamie Cunningham, who was also carrying a knife.
Townsend stabbed Mr Brophy repeatedly in the head, face and arms inside the property, before stabbing him again in the neck on the road outside, the court heard.
A sob could be heard from the public gallery as the judge described injuries to Mr Brophy.
He said: “On any level, the unlawful violence used by you was truly shocking.”
Statement
In a statement which she read to the court, Mr Brophy’s mother Lisa Ward said: “Jordan was by no means perfect and innocent but never did anyone ever, ever, have the right to take him from me.”
She said Mr Brophy had taken the “wrong path in life” after losing a job at Jaguar Land Rover, where he had worked with her, and had mental health problems.
She said after waiting more than two years for a mental health referral he had an appointment with a psychiatrist on November 4 but died before he was able to attend.
Family
Members of Mr. Brophy’s family were shocked when Ms. Weekes said that Mr. Townsend may not have sustained defensive injuries because he was “better at defending himself”.
But Judge Menary said he discovered that Brophy was not armed with a gun when he was attacked by Townsend.
He said: “I did not expect a confrontation.”
About 10 members of Brophy’s family sat in the public gallery for the hearing and cheered as the sentence was announced.
Townsend shrugged at members of his own family as he walked off the dock.
He was sentenced to a two-year concurrent sentence for possession of a sharp item.
Cunningham, 23, of Penmann Crescent, Halewood, who was acquitted of murder and manslaughter in a previous trial, was given a two-year community sentence of supervision, with 10 days of rehabilitative activity, after he pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed object midway. through a new trial.
