‘Monster’ neighbour jailed for at least 37 years for Gloucestershire murder

Can Arslan stabbed Matthew Boorman to death on lawn and seriously injured two others

A monster" who murdered one neighbour and seriously wounded two others in a spree of planned violence" after they took legal action to try to curtail his 12-year campaign of extreme harassment has been jailed for at least 37 years.

Can Arslan, 52, stabbed Matthew Boorman on Boorman's front lawn in the village of Walton Cardiff, Gloucestershire, on 5 October last year. Boorman's wife, Sarah, sustained a knife wound to her thigh as she tried to help, while another neighbour, Peter Marsden, was stabbed eight times but managed to fend off Arslan.