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Article: Double baby killer jailed for 7 years; Mum to stand by partner after dad sentenced over death of his sons
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- September 17, 2002
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A father who killed his two baby sons eight years apart was jailed
today for seven years.
Ian Metcalfe, 34, was found guilty in July of the culpable
homicides of two-month-old Kyle Metcalfe in 1988 and five-month-old
Dylan Lockerbie in 1996.
Metcalfe, of Locharbriggs, Dumfries, was also convicted of
suffocating and endangering the life of a third child, who cannot be
named for legal reasons.
Kyle and Dylan had both suffered broken bones during previous
suffocating attacks at the hands of their father.
Lord Carloway, passing sentence at the High Court in Edinburgh,
said the jury had found Metcalfe guilty of "serious convictions of
violence against defenceless infants".
He went on: "You ...