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The family of the victim
speak outside court

by Keith Hunt

The father of Kent man Adam Beaney has described his son's
killer and the woman who helped him as cowards.

Tommy Beaney, 39, gave his emotional verdict on the conclusion
of the case outside Maidstone Crown Court, where Ricky Mount and
his mother Maxine Liddle were jailed.

Mount was convicted of killing teenage love rival Adam Beaney
with a single stab wound to the heart on Faversham Recreation
Ground.

He said: "They are cowards the pair of them. They have got to
live with what they done that night. They could have called an
ambulance to save a person's life."



Talking of Ricky Mount, the 21-year-old father sentenced to life,
he said: "He is nothing to me and he never will be anything to
me.

"He deserves life for life, that's what I feel about him. Life
for taking my son's life. He showed no remorse, neither has his
mother."



Of Mrs Liddle, Mr Beaney said: "She left my son to die in a field
when all she had to do was call an ambulance. How am I going to
explain that to Adam's brothers and sisters, that she's only got
two years."

Ricky Mount will have to serve a minimum of 20 years, less 253
days served on remand before being considered for release.

His prison officer mother was jailed for two years for
assisting an offender by disposing of the murder weapon and her
son's clothes.

Neither 21-year-old Mount nor Liddle, 44, showed any emotion as
Judge Andrew Patience QC passed sentenced in a hushed court.

Earlier, the packed public gallery had been warned to remain
silent following an emotional outburst when the guilty verdicts
were returned by the jury of six men and six women.

Maidstone Crown Court heard Mount stabbed 19-year-old Adam
Beaney through the heart in the early hours of May 30 last
year.

Mount had harboured a grudge against the victim because he was
going out with his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child, Alicia
Stankovich, 20.

Judge Patience
told Mount: "This is yet another case in which the carrying of a
knife in a public place and its use has led to the needless death
of a young man.

"You are someone with a short fuse. You acted impulsively on
this occasion with deadly effect. While you continue to behave in
this way...you present a danger to the public."

Mount, of Edward Vinson Drive, Faversham, denied murder,
claiming he believed the knife he had did not come into contact
with Adam's body.

Liddle, 44, of Lewis Close, Faversham, denied assisting an
offender, saying she could not explain why she acted as she
did.