A Massachusetts jury found a British man guilty on Wednesday of killing his wife and infant daughter before fleeing to Britain where he was arrested and extradited to the United States.
Neil Entwistle, 29, was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting of his American wife, Rachel, 27, and 9-month-old daughter, Lillian Rose, at their home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, in January 2006.
Entwistle, who faces life in prison with no chance of parole, shut his eyes and shook his head slightly when the verdict was read after the jury deliberated for two days at the end of the four-week trial in Woburn, Massachusetts.
"Neil Entwistle will now live with his evil deeds for the rest of his natural life only to be judged again," said Joseph Flaherty, a spokesman for Rachel Entwistle's family.
The former Internet entrepreneur denied the double-murder charges. His court-appointed lawyer, Elliot Weinstein, said he was prepared to appeal the case to the state's highest court.
Prosecutors accused Entwistle of shooting his wife in the head and then turning the .22 calibre gun on his daughter as they lay together in bed in their Massachusetts home.
Entwistle's lawyers had argued that a depressed Rachel Entwistle killed her daughter and then herself, and that Neil Entwistle had sought to cover up the murder-suicide to protect his wife's honour and memory.
Before the trial, his lawyers and family questioned whether the case's intense media coverage would taint jurors.
