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The victim's family speak
outside court
A young father has been jailed
for life for the brutal murder of a teenage love rival at Faversham
recreation ground.
Ricky Mount (pictured left) will
have to serve a minimum of 20 years, less 253 days served on
remand, before being considered for release.
His prison officer mother Maxine Liddle
was jailed for two years for assisting an offender by disposing of
the murder weapon and her son's clothes.
Neither 21-year-old Mount nor
Liddle, 44, showed any emotion as Judge Andrew Patience QC passed
sentenced in a hushed court.
Earlier, the packed public gallery
had been warned to remain silent following an emotional outburst
when the guilty verdicts were returned by the jury of six men and
six women.
Maidstone Crown Court heard Mount
stabbed 19-year-old Adam Beaney through the heart with a single
blow in the early hours of May 30 last year.
Mount had harboured a grudge
against the victim because he was going out with his ex-girlfriend
and mother of his child, Alicia Stankovich, 20.
Judge Patience
told Mount: "This is yet another case in which the carrying of a
knife in a public place and its use has led to the needless death
of a young man.
"You are someone with a short fuse.
You acted impulsively on this occasion with deadly effect. While
you continue to behave in this way...you present a danger to the
public."
Mount, of Edward Vinson Drive,
Faversham, denied murder, claiming he believed the knife he had did
not come into contact with Adam's body.
Liddle, 44, of Lewis Close,
Faversham, (pictured right) denied assisting an offender, saying
she could not explain why she acted as she did.