The son of Britain’s ‘most feckless dad’ was jailed for life yesterday after stabbing a man to death – the second of his children convicted of murder.
Raymond Hull made headlines in 2014 after it emerged he had 22 children by 11 women.
The Mirror told how Hull, now 67, was sentenced to 18 months after he was caught with a stash of cannabis.
But a judge suspended the sentence after learning that Hull needed to help his then 26-year-old girlfriend look after their seven-month old baby.
Yesterday his son Kane Hull was told he must serve at least 28 years for the brutal murder of Ryan Kirkpatrick.
Hull, 29, and Liam Porter, 33, formed “team murder” and acted jointly in a plan to stab Mr Kirkpatrick in Carlisle on September 18 last year, a court heard.
Tim Evans, prosecuting, added that Kane Hull had been the knifeman, with Porter “supporting the plan”.
He described the killing as “nearer to an execution than a fight because Ryan Kirkpatrick had not a chance to fight back”.
Mr Justice Linden jailed Hull, of no fixed address, for life with a 28-year minimum.
Porter, of Carlisle, got life with a minimum term of 26 years.
In 1996 Kane Hull’s brother Adrian kicked Nicky Morrison to death in a park and then threw his body into a stream.
Adrian was freed from prison in 2013 aged 34, having served 17 years.
After Kane’s sentencing at Carlisle crown court, Cumbria Police’s Det Chief Supt Mick Bird told of his force’s efforts to find the killers, who had fled to the Republic of Ireland. He said officers and staff had worked day and night.
Investigators followed up large numbers of leads and pored over CCTV, he said.
The car Hull and Porter had used following the murder was later found burning in Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle.
Det Chief Supt Bird added: “This was a shocking attack that robbed a young man of his life, his family and friends of a loved one – and which horrified all those present at the time. Ordinary members of the public, paramedics and police officers tried to save Mr Kirkpatrick’s life.”
In 2014, when Raymond Hull’s past came to light, it emerged the cannabis dealer had not worked a day in 10 years. In an interview at the time grandad of 19 Raymond said: “Every time I have a one-night stand, the girl ends up getting pregnant. If it’s tidy, you don’t knock it back, do you? I’ve got a bad back so I can’t work.
“It must be from running around after all these kids all these years.”
Hull Snr, then of Aspatria, Cumbria, had 31 previous convictions at the time.
