Matthew Brook KC and Siobhan Collins, instructed by Paul Farrow of the Complex Casework Unit, prosecuted a man who murdered his vulnerable father in Tamworth in 2022.
Against a background of being subjected to physical abuse by his son, Anthony Sykes was beaten and killed by Thomas Sykes on 12th August 2022. To conceal his offence, the Defendant then put his father’s body into a box in a garage and dug a grave in some nearby wasteland. He then continued to use a bank card he had stolen before the murder to take further funds from his father’s account.
The Defendant claimed that he had found his father and was respecting his wishes in burying him outside. The case involved a substantial amount of complicated scientific evidence and witness accounts.
The Defendant denied murder but was convicted by a jury at Stafford Crown Court following a two-week trial.
Thomas Sykes was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 18 years and 212 days.
Man murdered father and hid body in cardboard box – BBC News
