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Briton Gets Life for Killing Wife, Baby

By DENISE LAVOIE,
AP
Posted: 2008-06-26 11:17:45
Filed Under: Crime News, Nation News
WOBURN, Mass. (June 26) -- A British man convicted of shooting to death his 9-month-old baby and wife as they cuddled together in bed showed no reaction Thursday as he was sentenced to two life prison terms without the opportunity for parole.

Neil Entwistle was found guilty Wednesday of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2006 deaths of his wife Rachel and their baby, Lillian Rose, in their rented home in Hopkinton. He fled to his native England afterward.

Double Murder in Massachusetts

Neil Entwistle is led into court June 24, 2008 - use this oneMatt Stone, AP

Neil Entwistle was sentenced to two life terms in prison Thursday for killing his wife and daughter. Prosecutors said Entwistle, shown being led into court Tuesday, was in debt and dissatisfied with his sex life when he shot his wife, Rachel, and 9-month-old Lillian Rose in January 2006.

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He claims his wife killed the baby and then committed suicide as they cuddled in bed.

Prosecutors said he was despondent over mounting debt and dissatisfied over his sex life.

During the brief sentencing hearing, Rachel's mother, Priscilla Matterazzo, called Entwistle's theory of a murder-suicide "low and despicable."

"Suffering does not begin to describe what we have been enduring without our beloved Rachel and Lillian," said Matterazzo, who wore a pink rose on her lapel in memory of her granddaughter. "I have lost two generations of my family."

Matterazzo asked that the life sentences be consecutive, to represent the two generations. But Middlesex District Court Judge Diane Kottmeyer said that would be only symbolic since there is no chance he'll be released, and imposed two concurrent life sentences.

Entwistle's family continued to support him.

"There is no way our innocent son Neil is guilty," his father, Clifford Entwistle, said before the sentencing. He refused comment afterward.

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sugarbeach10 06:39:52 PM Jun 29 2008

LISTEN : Think about it all.................Not a fair trial.........................suppressed evidence by a biased judge, gsr evidence not investigated fully, both mothers knew of Rachel's PPD , no gsr in Neil's BMW,idiot jury, police errors galore, etc.............................Mass Gov. should pardon him because we do NOT know he did it !

sugarbeach10 06:38:31 PM Jun 29 2008

Not a fair trial.........................suppressed evidence by a biased judge, gsr evidence not investigated fully, both mothers knew of Rachel's PPD , no gsr in Neil's BMW,idiot jury, police errors galore, etc.............................Mass Gov. should pardon him because we do NOT know he did it !

sugarbeach10 06:35:56 PM Jun 29 2008

That Materrazzo family seem really low-class especially that ugly illiterate sounding father Joe (he just haddd to procreate 6 times with those genes???)........wow Rachel really married up ! The Entwistle family is so refined.

sugarbeach10 06:34:15 PM Jun 29 2008

That Materrazzo family seem really low-class especially that ugly illiterate sounding father Joe (he just haddd to procreate 6 times with those genes???)........wow Rachel really married up ! The Entwistle family is so refined.

lovedov 03:11:38 PM Jun 29 2008

Isn't it strange this monster didn't receive the death penalty - STRANGE????????

ddokken69 05:30:26 AM Jun 28 2008

Johnconnecticut hit it right on the head. I couldn't agree with you more than exactly what you said, he is SCUM OF THE EARTH. How anyone could kill a innocent nine month old child especially your own is not a human being but the lowest form of garbage that ever existed. What makes this case even harder to imagine is that this guy killed two innocent people over money and his sex life. Heck he could have just had an affair or something, anything other than killing two defensless people that did nothing wrong other than be associated with this monster. I can't begin to express my deepest sorry and my heart goes out to the family and friends of the victims. I can only imagine how painfull this has to be for the family. May the rest in Peace.

johnconnecticut 11:19:33 PM Jun 26 2008

how can U live with yourslelf, Entwistle? you are the lowest of scum -- to kill an infany ( your own, at that ) -- then blame your dead / murdered wife? it does NOT get any lower, you scum bag. Oh - you're Mom is a piece of work - crying about the injustice to her sweet innocent son. Tell Mom to take a trip to Planet Earth.

hydmnq 10:46:55 PM Jun 26 2008

IS NO BODY HOME ? ONLY THIS PERSON/PERSONS WITH THE GAS / GROCERIES ADVERTISE ?WHERE IS EVERY BODY ?

hydmnq 10:30:55 PM Jun 26 2008

A DEBT ON EBAY FOR $32.00 OR $42.00 FOR A FEW PEOPLE, THAT IS WHAT IS CALL MOUNTAINED ON DEBT ? THEY HAD PLAN FOR A GET TOGETHER WITH FRIEND FOR DINER THAT WEEKEND, HE WENT TO GET SOME COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, PUT GAS, NO MONEY? NO THIS IS SOMETHING MORE, MAYBE HE WANT TO GO BACK TO ENGLAND AND TOLD HER OR YOU FOLLOW ME OR I GO ALONE, WE WOMEN ARE VERY EXTRANGE ON OUR REACTIONS, IS VERY EASY TO MAKE A OPINION FROM OUTSIDE, BUT BE IN THE SITUATION LIKE HIM, THAT NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO GO AROUND, IF YOU NEVER EXPERIENCED LIVING IN A EXTRANGE COUNTRY WITHOUT ANY FAMILIAR FACE AROUND AND SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENED, YOU CAN NOT MAKE AN OPINION THAT FOR SURE "HE DID IT" ALSO HIS ACCENT , MENTALITY IS/ARE DIFERENT THAN US. I DON'T THINK HE IS CAPABLE OF DOING NOTHING OF THIS NATURE, NOT BECAUSE I THINK HE IS GOOD BUT BECAUSE HE LOOKS TOO WIMP, TOO MAMA'S BOY HE HAVE NO TEMPER.

hydmnq 10:15:44 PM Jun 26 2008

I NEVER SAID THAT HE IS INOCENT, WHAT I SAID WAS THAT IN ORDER TO SENT A PERSON (29 YEARS OLD) TO PRISON FOR LIFE, EVERYTHING MUST BE INVESTIGATED DEEPPLY. SOME PEOPLE ONLY BELIVED WHAT THEY HEARD, I AM THE TYPE OF PERSON (66 YEARS OLD) THAT I ALL WAY LIKE TO PLACE MYSELF IN THE OTHER PERSON SHOES. FIRSTABLE, NO BODY KNOWS IF HE HAS/HAD ANY MENTAL BACKGROUND, NO BODY KNOWS WHY AND HOW THE STEPFATHER'S GUN WAS IN THEIR HOUSE, NO BODY KNOWS THAT THE STEPFATHER WENT THAT VERY SAME sUNDAY TO A SHOT RANGE, NO BODY KNOWS HOW rACHEL WILL REACT IF SHE WAS TOLD THE HE IS GAY, NO BODY KNOW HIS PAST AT ALL. ANOTHER POINT, WHEN YOU ONLY LIVE IN AN STRANGE cOUNTRY 4 MONTHS AND SOMETHING THAT TERRIBLE HAPPENED TO YOU, WHERE YOU GO, WHO YOU WILL SEEK FOR HELP, HE FEEL AN EXTRANGER WITHIN HER FAMILY..AND I CAN KEEP GOING, GOING AND GOING, THEY WAS NOT THAT POOR SINCE THEY MOVED TO A $2,700.00 RENT HOUSE 2 WEEKS PRIOR, HE PURCHASE A TICKET TO ENGLAND AT LEAST COST $700.00 IN A MOMENT NOTICE, DEBT ON E

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