This is the face of axeman Taras Voinovich, jailed for life at Oxford Crown Court on Monday.

He was described by Recorder John Hardy KC as having launched a ‘murderous assault’. The judge gave him a life sentence and ordered him to serve 12 years before being eligible for release by the Parole Board.

Voinovich, of Islip Road, Oxford, was convicted earlier this year of wounding with intent, causing actual bodily harm and criminal damage.

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Pulling a sheathed axe from his rucksack, he set about respected immigration lawyer Philip Turpin outside the man’s home in East Oxford at breakfast time on July 28 last year.

Sentencing, Recorder Hardy said the Ukrainian defendant had engaged Mr Turpin’s firm to ‘clarify’ his immigration status. 

“For no sensible reason so far as the court can discern, you took exception to the quality of service provided,” he said.

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“As it was, although you did not know it, Mr Turpin, whilst quite rightly not accepting that his firm had done anything wrong, had nevertheless decided to refund you the fee that you had paid.

“But such was your sense of grievance – in my judgment a wholly irrational sense of grievance – that you armed yourself with an axe, a truly lethal weapon, put that axe in your rucksack and hunted down Mr Turpin.”