A man who tried to kill his parents by driving them into a canal has been found guilty of shooting them dead four months later.
Stephen Seddon, who had an "insatiable thirst for cash", carried out the "execution" to get his hands on his inheritance, a court heard.
The 46-year-old convicted fraudster had once before tried to murder his father, Robert Seddon, 68, and mother, Patricia, 65, in a staged car accident.
Strapped in the back seats of a hire car, Seddon drove the pair into a canal on March 20, last year, in a faked road accident.
He was forced to abort his plot and "play the hero" instead when bystanders went to their aid.
The Seddons on their wedding day On July 4 of that year he shot the couple dead with a sawn-off shotgun at their home in Clough Avenue, Sale, Greater Manchester.
His elderly parents had made him sole beneficiary of their £230,000 estate in their will, should they both have died.
They had already gifted the father of three £40,000 in cash and bought him his home in Benevente Street, Seaham, in Co Durham.
After a five-week trial, a jury at Manchester Crown Court found him guilty of two counts of attempted murder and two counts of murder.
There were cried of "Yes!" from the victims' family in the public gallery, with some in tears and hugging each other when the verdicts were announced.
During the trial, Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, described Seddon as the ultimate "ungrateful son".
On his first attempt to kill his parents, the court heard Seddon had taken the pair out on the pretext of treating them to a belated Mother's Day meal.
His nephew Daniel - who managed to free himself and reach safety - was also in the car when it veered off the road into the Bridgewater Canal in Timperley, south Manchester.
Mr and Mrs Seddon were rescued from the water, after which their son gave varied accounts of what had happened to police.
He told one officer at the scene he had suffered a heart attack, and also suggested the car had hit a brick.
Months later, Robert Seddon confided in his GP that he believed the episode had been a deliberate attempt to kill him - and that he intended to confront his son about it.
The next day - he and his wife were shot dead at their home.
Seddon had taken three shotgun cartridges with him. Police believe he also intended to kill his disabled nephew, who he did not realise was in respite care that day.
The murder weapon was planted in his father's lap, and his right hand placed on it, to give the impression of a murder-suicide.
He denied the shooting and said it was "ridiculous" to claim he had tried to kill his own mother and father and "sick" to suggest he had intended to murder his nephew as well.
Seddon, who faces life in prison for the killings, will be sentenced on Thursday.
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