By Tom Parmenter, Sky Correspondent
A man has been jailed for life after he admitted murdering a Good Samaritan who had gone to the aid of his neighbour during a robbery.
Ian McLoughlin, 55, was ordered to serve a minimum of 40 years for the murder of pensioner Graham Buck, 66, in Hertfordshire in July.
Justice Sweeney said he was barred from passing a whole life term because of a European judgement that those sentences are in breach of human rights.
McLoughlin had been released from a murder sentence and went straight to visit an elderly man who he had met earlier in prison.
The court heard how McLoughlin had intended to steal money from Francis Cory-Wright, who was jailed for 30 months for indecently assaulting a 10-year old boy in the 1970s.
He tied the 86-year-old up in his home in the village of Little Gaddesden, near Berkhamsted.
During the violent struggle, Cory-Wright called out for help. His neighbour Mr Buck tried to intervene but was met on the driveway by McLoughlin who stabbed him.
Another neighbour described how Mr Buck's throat had been slashed "wide open" in the attack.
He died on his front lawn, with his pet dog sitting beside him.
The killer then went on the run hiding in London before being arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police in Tottenham.
He later told officers he intended to hurt Cory Wright but he regretted his attack on Mr Buck.
He said: "I'm not sorry for what I did to the nonce, but I'm sorry for what I did to the pensioner."
McLoughlin was previously convicted of murder in July 1992 at Lewes Crown Court and had served 21 years in prison when he was released on the morning of the latest murder.
In a victim impact statement, Mr Buck's family spoke of their heartbreak at their loss and said how shortly before the murder he had travelled to Poland to see relatives and to meet his newborn granddaughter.
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