REPORTS will be prepared to establish how long the killer of a Bolton mum and her two children will languish in jail.

Yesterday Peter Christopher Hall, 34, received three life sentences for the brutal killings of Celeste Bates and her sons, Daniel, eight, and 17-month-old Milo in September.

Now a prison service spokesman says reports will be written, recommending how long Hall - who had been the boyfriend of Celeste for eight months - should serve in prison before he can be considered for parole.

It comes as Celeste's former husband Ian Bates yesterday made an impassioned plea to legal bosses, to keep Hall, of Moss Shaw Way, Radcliffe, behind bars for the rest of his life.

Talking to the BEN, following the verdict at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Bates said: "In this country there's a chance he will get out in years to come. He should never be allowed to come out.

"Any hope he has of being released on parole should be crushed out of him, just as he crushed the life out of others."

The prison service spokesman said that Hall's conduct in prison would also determine any future possible parole.

Seconds after leaving court, where he had heard the horrific details of the deaths of Celeste and the two children, Mr Bates had been too upset to speak.

But later the brave 36-year-old philosophy graduate gathered his composure to reveal that Celeste had been "hinting at a reconciliation" in the months before her murder.

And he says he may now leave the house where he is living in Blackburn Road, Egerton, where the murders took place, after hearing the terrible details of the killings.

He added: "I could live till I'm 90 but there's not a day that will go by when they won't be in my mind.

"I didn't know the full circumstances but now I have heard how brutal it was it will be very difficult to stay there."

And Mr Bates described his former wife and his two children as "absolutley stunning."

The heartbroken man added: "Celeste was a beautiful woman and mother. She had so many plans and was absolutely devoted to the children.

"Daniel was top of his class and he was great both physically and mentally.

"Milo was a character in his own particular nursery class. He was the spitting image of me. People used to say that if you put a beard on him we would look identical. He was always laughing."

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