Former council worker who murdered childhood friend jailed for life

A former council worker who stabbed his childhood friend to death after complaining the victim had a ‘better life’ was jailed for 28 years today (fri). Bradley Wood, 25, had been released from prison three weeks before he knifed Lee Hatley, 29, at least 29 times in the head neck and chest during a house party. Wood also stabbed Mr Hatley’s girlfriend, barmaid Lauren Egan-Perkins, 22, in the neck during the scuffle in her bedroom in Islington, north London. As…