Handing Desborough a rare whole-life order, he said the killer was a highly dangerous person who had considered his victims “worthless”. The judge said Desborough killed his two friends because they were vulnerable, homeless, physically slight individuals who he considered would not necessarily be missed given their chaotic personal lives. Saini added that a whole-life order was a “last resort”, used only when the seriousness of a case was “exceptionally high”. She said it terrified her to think her father would have been frightened when he was killed and told Desborough he was a “miscreant killer”. Desborough told a forensic biologist who was searching the woods that he had “particularly enjoyed the dismemberment scenes” in the television serial killer series Dexter.