Man who killed parents for £230,000 estate was 'ultimate ungrateful son'

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/27/man-killed-parents-estate-son
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A year ago, Stephen Seddon was hailed as a hero. The 46-year-old's face was splashed all over the media when he "saved" his parents after driving his car into a canal with them in the back. He had hit a brick, he told some reporters. To others, he said he must have blacked out.

Some of those on the bank of the Bridgewater canal in Manchester on 20 March last year later recalled how odd it was that Seddon was jumping up and down on the car roof as it began to sink. But they didn't dwell on it too much at the time.

Police also thought it a little surprising that accident investigators could find no evidence of the hired BMW hitting a brick. Strange too that Seddon appeared in perfectly good health. And wasn't it lucky he was carrying not just a knife with which he could cut his seatbelt but a wheel lock to smash open his window as the car disappeared into the canal?

But it was only when Seddon's parents, Robert, 68, and Patricia, 65, were found shot dead four months later at their house in Sale, Greater Manchester, that detectives saw the "accident" in a very different light.
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What a greedy pretentious scumbag.

[frogmarch]

1. Yes, and also

a very stupid greedy pretentious scumbag!

[malaise]

2. Yep - greedy often goes together with stupid

When all that matters is being an elite by any means the stupid is beyond burning.