WILLIAM PETIT: 'I HAVE A JAGGED HOLE IN MY HEART'

'JAGGED HOLE IN MY HEART'

THE FATHER whose wife and two daughters were murder in a sickening family slaughter said the case had left a "jagged hole" in his heart after one of the killers was found guilty yesterday. 
Joshua Komisarjevsky could join his co-accused Steven Hayes in a date with the death penalty after being found guilty of 17 charges relating to the gruesome 2007 home invasion.
After breaking in the deadly duo, viciously smashed William Petit with a baseball bat before tying him up with his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit and their two daughters, Hayley, 17, and and Michaela, 11. 
The perverted pair then raped Jennifer and molested Hayley, before sending Hawke-Petit to a bank, with the threat that they would hurt her family unless she withdrew $15,000. 
When she got there, she told a teller and a bank manager called the cops, but by the time they got to the Petit home, it was engulfed in flames. 
Only William Petit managed to escape the blaze and yesterday after fours years of harrowing testimony he told reporters that he was left with a "jagged hole in his heart" but was grateful for the support he had received. 
Of his family's killer he added: "I thought from the beginning that he was a lying sociopathic personality and probably at this moment he doesn't think he is guilty of anything."
Komisarjevsky meanwhile described the crime as "home invading gone terribly wrong" and insisted he never intended to kill the family. 
The same jury next month will decided whether he lives or dies next month.