Kane Coggin and Liam Bastow were both given life for Aaron Pill s murder In a victim impact statement, his mother Caroline Johnson said she cried every day following Aaron s death on May 4. She said he was her first son and best friend and was caring and generous and would help anyone out. His death has affected me so much. He was taken away by the undertaker and I never got the chance to see him. This has happened whilst we have been trying to deal with the challenges of COVID 19 and when Aaron was in the mortuary in Exeter. We could not go and see him because of restrictions. We had to wait weeks that hurt me so much, knowing he was alone.
THE two men convicted of the killing of Aaron Pill have been sentenced to a minimum of 21 years each for his murder. Kane Coggin, 27, of Meadowbank, Mylor Bridge and Liam Bastow, 24, of Avalon Close, Mylor Bridge were unanimously found guilty of murder by a jury at Truro Crown Court on December 2. The court heard that a desire for revenge after threats were made over a £400 drug debt led to the murder of Aaron Pill. He was killed at his home in Tresawle Road, Falmouth on May 4 this year. Coggin, 27, of Meadowbank, and Bastow, 24, of Avalon Close, had admitted manslaughter but denied murder.
The family of Falmouth murder victim Aaron Pill have been praised for their dignity at the conclusion of a trial that saw two men sentenced to life in prison. Liam Bastow, 25, and Kane Coggin, 27, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to the manslaughter of 25-year-old Aaron Pill on May 5 this year, but were found guilty of murder by a jury at Truro Crown Court earlier this month. Now the senior investigating officer in the case, Detective Inspector Costa Nassaris, has praised Mr Pill s family and thanked the detectives involved for carrying out the inquiry amid challenge circumstances. He said: “This was a planned attack which resulted in the death of a young father in his home in May this year.
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