CRAIG LE SAUVAGE blames himself for not physically dragging elder brother Wayne from their mother’s home before he killed her. The details are contained in a national magazine story about Elaine Le Sauvage’s death.

The latest edition of Pick Me Up features a three-page interview with Craig.

It highlights the sons’ claims of abuse throughout their childhood, detailing threats, beatings and being made to stand naked for hours, in the name of punishment.

‘We looked every inch the perfect family. However, looks can be deceptive. When dad was at work, mum loved to torture Wayne and I until we begged for mercy,’ he told the magazine.

‘It wasn’t just physical violence that mum loved. She got her kicks from mental torture, too,’ he claimed.

After moving to the UK and seeing his mother, he decided to sever ties with her.

‘I can forgive, but I’ll never forget. I don’t want to see you again,’ he wrote.

He said that as long as his brother lived with her, Wayne would never be free and begged him to get out but he questioned where he would go.

‘His confidence was crushed. Wayne was a grown man of 31, but mum was still controlling him,’ he told Pick Me Up.

The next call he received from Guernsey was from the police.

‘I instantly knew it could mean only one thing,’ he said.

He travelled to the police station to visit his brother. ‘You could see in his eyes he was terrified,’ he said.

‘Of course in the eyes of the law Wayne wasn’t a victim. He was a cold-blooded killer. You could say mum got what was coming to her. You might even expect me to be happy. But I wasn’t. Had she suffered? Was she as scared as I used to be, cowering in a corner as she lashed out? I’d hated her for years, even wished her dead at times. But not like this. As sad as I was about mum, I wasn’t angry with Wayne. How could I be? He’d been a ticking time bomb, just waiting to go off,’ he told Pick Me Up.

After hearing the grisly details, Craig had said: ‘This was all my fault. I’d known how close to the edge Wayne was. I should have physically dragged him away, saved him from himself.’

Wayne Le Sauvage admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was sentenced to seven years.