"Evil" murders carried out by a Salisbury supermarket worker in front of children left the family of the victims with nothing but pain and "nightmares".

The parents of Aneta Zdun, killed by her husband Marcin Zdun at their home on Wessex Road, Salisbury, say they are left with a void “nobody or nothing is able to fill”.

The defendant’s two younger children, who were at the house when their mum and eldest sister had their throats slit on June 1, have “nightmares” in which they dream of their dad “approaching them” to kill them.

Zdun, a former Tesco worker, has been found guilty of murdering Aneta, 40, and Nikoleta, 18, during a trial at Winchester Crown Court.

Today (December 18), he was sentenced to life in prison by Mr Justice Chamberlain.

In an emotional victim impact statement read out in court by prosecutor Nicholas Haggan QC, Aneta’s mum spoke of her heartache at the loss of her only child and eldest granddaughter.

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‘I will never hug her again’

Bozena Stanczyk referred to June 1, known in Poland as Children’s Day, as “the day where evil won which caused the cruel death of the person closest to my heart”.

In her statement the 59-year-old said: “I will never again talk to my wonderful, clever, smiling, warm and good daughter, I will never again see her in real life, I will never hug her nor kiss her and embrace her with a motherly love towards a daughter.”

She continued: “Instead of looking forward to my visits to see [my daughter], I walk to the cemetery and I bring flowers.

"I light a candle and I talk to her… however, I do not hear a reply, there’s just a deafening silence.”

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'The apple of my eye'

Mrs Stanczyk also expressed her pain at the loss of her granddaughter Nikoleta who was “the apple of my eye” and concerns over Aneta’s younger children who witnessed their mum and sister being murdered.

“Aneta was their whole world… she shared with them every moment, she was their support and their rock, she was their feeling of safety.

“Their sister was on the other hand a person to emulate and look up to.

“My granddaughters have been deprived of the ability to see their mother and sister on a daily basis, cuddling up to her and living a life filled to the brim with love, happiness and joy.

“Now we go to the cemetery.

"The children bring artwork which they’ve done for their mother and sister.

"They light a candle and pray for their souls.”

Impact on younger children

Mrs Stanczyk, who now looks after the surviving children, said they have “nightmares” about what happened that day.

“Emotions of distress and fear have appeared, unsettling behaviours which are not suitable to the situation have also appeared.

“The children wake up shouting with nightmares because they see their father approaching them and wanting to harm them.

"He wants to kill them.”

“I fear for their future,” she added.

“I keep thinking how much [their mum and sister’s death] will leave a mark on their adulthood.”

‘Emptiness nobody or nothing can fill’

Aneta’s father Andrzej Stanczyk also provided a victim impact statement to the court.

In it, he paid tribute to his daughter and granddaughter who “had her whole life ahead of her”.

He said: “Now when I’m in my room I cry like a small baby, had she died in a car accident or on a pedestrian crossing then I would understand, I could explain it to myself but they died at the hands of the person closest to them

“I’m not able to understand this, something in me snapped, something burned out, there is now emptiness which nobody or nothing is able to fill.”