The world is slowly going mad.
How does the brutal murder of an elderly man only deserve 25 years in prison? 25 years minimum is not life. Why will this person be returned to the general population?
A cleaner who beat an 82-year-old widower to death before burying him in the garden so she could get his money was jailed for life today.
Ann Browning, 54, was ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years for the 'wicked murder' of retired postman William Williamson after a judge at Guildford Crown Court ruled she planned the killing for financial gain.
Browning, of Ockford Ridge, Surrey, had pleaded guilty to murder but denied the crime was financially motivated.
She claimed she beat Mr Williamson with a plastic rounders bat in a temper and then buried his body in her garden to cover up her crime.
At a hearing last week to determine whether she had planned the murder for financial gain or not, Guildford Crown Court heard Browning beat Mr Williamson repeatedly round the head and body.
She then stripped him naked, bound his legs with a belt, wrapped him in a shower curtain and put him head-first into a grave she had dug in the back garden of the home they shared.
Within days of his death in September 2010 she had transferred £140,000 from their joint account into her personal account.
The court heard when challenged, she told 'a number of elaborate lies' about Mr Williamson's whereabouts, including telling police he was in Ireland for a funeral. She also forged documents using his signature to close a Royal Mail account in his name, saying he was moving to a care home on the south coast. Read More
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