AS MICHAEL Stone faced a lifetime in jail today, his sister vowed to carry on the fight to clear his name. Stone has been found guilty for the second time of the brutal murders of Dr Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan, and the attempted murder of Josie Russell.

Stone's sister, Barbara, was due to meet his defence team today for talks.

Stone, 41, from Gillingham, was found guilty of viciously attacking Dr Russell, 45, and her daughters with a hammer as they walked along a country lane with their dog at Chillenden, near Canterbury, in 1996.

Dr Russell and Megan died after being bound and gagged with pieces of swimming towel and then bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Josie, then only nine, survived after undergoing emergency neurosurgery and was eventually able to give her account of the attacks to police.

The jury spent 10-and-a-half hours deliberating over the verdicts and returned majority decisions of 10-2 on all three counts.