A serial criminal's reign of terror across Harrogate finally culminated yesterday (October 3), when he was handed a life sentence for murder. Philip Watson, 35, murdered 56-year-old Paul Tillett at his Strawberry Dale flat on September 29 last year. He was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court yesterday, when Mr Justice Hilliard told the court Watson "took pleasure" in inflicting pain and suffering on other people, including his murder victim. But the fatal attack at Mr Tillett's own home was far from Watson's first run in with the law. But, as the judge told the court, no sentence can ever put right what Watson did, nor could it reflect the value of Mr Tillett's life.