NOTTINGHAM'S GAMEKEEPER ASSASSIN.

Notts gamekeeper assassin gets sentence reduction

A HIRED assassin who was promised more than £20,000 to kill a wealthy Notts gamekeeper has had his minimum sentence cut on appeal.

Peter Thomas Jacques, 30, of Charlesworth Street, Bolsover, Derbyshire, agreed to murder part-time gamekeeper and security firm boss Neil Bacon.

He was hired by Mr Bacon's son, Michael, of Wordsworth Avenue, Mansfield Woodhouse, at the instigation of his mother, Mr Bacon senior's wife, Susan, of Keeper's Cottage, Clumber Park, London's Criminal Appeal Court heard.

Mr Bacon, 50, was stabbed six times on the driveway of his cottage on the Clumber Park Estate, near Worksop, by Jacques on November 26, 2008, and died of blood loss.

Jacques received a 28-year minimum term, Susan Bacon 24 years and Michael Bacon 21 years.

Yesterday, Lord Justice Moore-Bick, Mr Justice McCombe and Judge Francis Gilbert QC reduced Jaques' minimum sentence by two years.