A triple killer has been given a whole-life order for murdering his neighbour after being wrongly housed next to her while on licence. Lawrence Bierton will spend the rest of his life in prison after beating 73-year-old Pauline Quinn to death with her coffee table at her home in Rayton Spur, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, on 9 November 2021. Bierton, 63, had been given accommodation in Rayton Spur while on licence from a life sentence for murdering two elderly sisters in 1995, a decision that was described by a Probation Service representative as “incorrect” in court and labelled a “significant mistake” by the judge, Mr Justice Pepperall. The defendant was found guilty of Quinn’s murder after a two-week trial at Nottingham crown court, with the judge describing his third killing as “senseless as it was brutal”. Handing Bierton a whole-life order on Wednesday, the first to be issued at the court since 2005, Pepperall said: “You have been found guilty of the senseless and brutal murder of three elderly and disabled women in their own homes. “You showed each of the victims no mercy. [These were] sustained attacks in which you used extraordinary levels of violence. “I am left in no doubt whatsoever that you must never again be given the opportunity to walk the streets. The only just sentence in this case is that you should remain in prison for the rest of your life.”