25yrs' jail for custody feud 'executioner'

Grandad blasted pair with shotgun over court battle

- DAN WARBURTON

A GRANDAD who shot dead his daughter's ex-lover and his father in a custody row has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.

Widower Stephen Alderton, 67, blasted father and son Gary and Joshua Dunmore in the head and chest with a legally held shotgun.

Describing the murders as an "execution", judge Mark Bishop said: "You took the decision to take the law into your own hands and end the lives of two innocent men.

Alderton's rampage on March 29 came two days after a family court hearing involving his grandson, who cannot be named.

Joshua had stopped his ex, Samantha Stephen, and her US airman husband, Paul, taking the seven-year-old to live in America.