50p slasher was double killer

A convicted double murderer who slashed a complete stranger across the head and chest in a row over 50p after he was released from a life sentence is back behind bars. George Phillip was just 16 when he brutally battered and stabbed frail widow Eileen Daide, 84, and her son Philip Cosburn, 43, to death in what was described as an ‘orgy of violence’. He was detained indefinitely at the Old Bailey in June 1991 but returned to the same…