Claire Quinn's killer Phillip Geoffrey Austin is due to have a parole hearing and could be released from prison after two decades behind bars. Now, Claire's mother Carol has spoken exclusively to Metro about his possible release 👇
Carol Quinn wants life to mean life ahead of a parole hearing for the man who murdered her only daughter and their two children
Austin, 53, is due for release after being given a 20-year tariff for killing the 31-year-old along with their daughter Jade, seven, and son Keiren, eight. ‘We had such a laugh, she was a joker. The children were my first grandchildren and now they would probably be married and we would probably be great-grandparents. But we have nothing.‘His daughters have never known their aunt on the father’s side of the family, they have never known their cousins. When it’s birthdays, Mother’s Days, Christmas, it’s just heart-wrenching.’
They discovered Claire’s body in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor before going upstairs and finding the children’s lifeless bodies in their beds. Only whole life orders prevent an offender from ever being released, except in ‘exceptional compassionate circumstances’. ‘It brings everything back to the front of your mind. If he had been given a full life sentence from the beginning, we could have closed the door, grieved for our daughter, grandchildren, and the dogs, and forgotten about him. Instead, we are left with this raging hatred inside us. I never knew the meaning of the word hate before this, it might be something you say about Brussels sprouts, but now I know the true meaning of the word.
Austin spent a week on the run after carrying out the killings before being arrested in the Lake District, where he was spotted in his car with his wrists slashed. He has never given any explanation for why he carried out the senseless crime, and Carol does not believe he can ever be rehabilitated. ‘My question to them would be, “how would you feel if he came out and formed a relationship with your daughter?”.
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