Man jailed for 27 years for ‘brutal and merciless’ murder of father-of-two
A man who repeatedly stamped on a father-of-two’s head, stopping only to try to buy a sandwich using his victim’s bank card before continuing his “brutal and merciless attack”, has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years.
Carl Ellitts, 26, was branded a “bully and a coward” by Mrs Justice Stacey at Wolverhampton Crown Court as she jailed him for the murder of Roy Deeley-Price, as well as three separate robberies, assault with intention to rob and four counts of raping of two women, all of which happened during a four-day “rampage”.
Ellitts, of no fixed address, saw Mr Deeley-Price, 48, withdrawing £10 from a cashpoint at a garage in Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, just before 10pm on May 28 last year and followed him before launching a “ferocious” assault on
